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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Sexagesima (N.O.: 5th Ord) 2024

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. It is the 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Novus Ordo and Sexagesima Sunday in the Vetus Ordo.   The Roman Station … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Holy Family (N.O. Transferred Epiphany) 2023

It’s Sunday and in the Vetus Ordo the Feast of the Holy Family.  In the Novus it’s – in most placed – transferred Epiphany.  Tomorrow is the last day of the Novus Ordo Christmas cycle, Baptism of the Lord.  In the Vetus … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Sunday in the Octave of Christmas (N.O. Holy Family) 2023

It’s the Sunday in the Octave of Christmas and, in the Novus Ordo, Feast of the Holy Family.  It’s the last day of the calendar year and the 1st anniversary of the death of Benedict XVI. Was there a GOOD … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 5th Sunday after Easter (N.O.: 6th of) 2023

Share the good stuff. It was the 5th Sunday after Easter in the Vetus Ordo and the 6th Sunday of Easter in the Novus Ordo. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Easter (N.O.: 5th of) 2023

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. It was the 4th Sunday after Easter in the Vetus Ordo and the 5th Sunday of Easter in the Novus Ordo. Was … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O.: 4th of) 2023

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. It was the 3rd Sunday after Easter in the Vetus Ordo and the 4th Sunday of Easter in the Novus Ordo.  In … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 1st Sunday of Lent 2023

Historically, today, the 1st Sunday of Lent, was the beginning of Lent.  Ash Wednesday and the intervening days were added later. That makes this Sunday historically and theologically important. Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the … Read More

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You might be able to improve the preaching in your parish and change a priest’s life. Wherein Fr. Z suggests.

Sometimes I muse on the truly horrible formation we seminarians in the 80’s received in Sacred Scripture.  I broke through that deficit with my knowledge of classical languages and studying Patristic Theology at the best place to do so in … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Epiphany (N.O.: 3rd Ord) 2023

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. It is the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Novus Ordo and the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany in the Vetus Ordo. … Read More

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DIEBUS SALTEM DOMINICIS – 2nd Sunday of Advent: Patience

The Gospel for our 2nd Sunday of Advent according to the Vetus Ordo, the Roman Mass, has two sections which need to be addressed separately, though they are connected. Firstly, in Matthew 11 John the Baptist is in prison because … Read More

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