Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 9th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 17th Ordinary)

Click for larger… look at His eyes.

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Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this 9th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo (17th Ordinary Sunday in the Novus Ordo)?

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.  I wrote about the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost but related it to the great feasts nearby.

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Commenting on this dramatic “cleansing of the Temple” moment, St. Jerome (+420) remarked that this was perhaps the Lord’s greatest miracle, considering their numbers and the way enemies were arrayed against Him.   Jerome opined that something of His divine authority must have shined forth in that moment which could not be withstood:

To me, among all the other [miracles], it seems more wonderful that, as one Man, and He at the time contemptible and so vile as to be subsequently crucified, with the Scribes and Pharisees raging against Him, and seeing their gains destroyed, He could by the stripes of His single scourge cast out so great a multitude, overthrow the tables, break the seats, and do other things, which a whole army could not have done. For something of fire and of the sidereal flashed from His eyes, and the majesty of His Divinity shone in His face (Commentarii in Matthaeum III, on Matt. 21:12).

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