Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Trinity Sunday

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.

Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this Trinity Sunday?

Tell us about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.

Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?

A taste of what I offered at 1 Peter 5 this week:

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There was a time when this Sunday after Pentecost was, in the Roman arrangement, liturgically rather empty, because the night from Ember Saturday and the morning had been spent in vigil at St. Peter’s Basilica. In 1334, however, John XXII, the second and longest reigning of the Avignon Popes, extended the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity to the universal Church. John XXII was a complicated figure. He centralized power in his own person, which helped provoke William of Ockham to write against limitless papal claims, and he also preached an erroneous opinion about the beatific vision, which he retracted before death. He also canonized St. Thomas Aquinas and may have composed the Anima Christi: “Soul of Christ, sanctify me, Body of Christ, save me, Blood of Christ, inebriate me.” Sort-of-Good Pope John XXII was not all bad.

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