A sermon for the fifth Sunday after Pentecost.
In the News
On June 1, 2021, the Vatican unveiled its updated penal code. Unlike the previous code, published in 1983, this revised code emphasizes the obligation of bishops to enforce penalties. Note below the closing paragraph of Rocca’s article:
“Vatican Revises Church Law in Wake of Sex Abuse, Financial Scandals,” Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2021
By Francis X. Rocca
“The revised code also includes a law against women’s ordination, specifying automatic excommunication for anyone ‘who attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the woman who attempts to receive the sacred order.’ Another update explicitly forbids the recording of confessions.”
“None is righteous, no, not one.” Romans 3:10
Pentecost season; the second Sunday
Text: Mark 2:23-28
In this season we are going to look at how the Christian life looks with our feet on the ground. We need to know how to live and what to do, practically. This is what the Pentecost season is about. The question is how to do it. Read more here.