Seventh Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from St. Pope Gregory the Great
The Beast, the Dragon, and the False Prophet (detail),Saint-Sever Beatus, pre-1072 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (7:15-21) At that time Jesus said to His disciples: Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the [...]
Sixth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
St. Mary of Egypt Icon, Byzantine, Modern Translation of the Epistle for the Sixth Sunday After Pentecost (Rom 6:3-11) Brethren: All we who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death. For we were buried with Him by means of Baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ has arisen from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. For if [...]
SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — A Message from the Venerable Bede
Feeding of the Multitudes, Engraving Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Mark (8:1-9) At that time, when there was a great multitude with Jesus, and they had nothing to eat, calling His disciples together, He saith to them: I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with Me three days, and have nothing to eat and if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in [...]
FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST – A Message From St. Augustine
Christ Rebukes the Scribes and Pharisees,Léonard Gaultier, cir. 1576-80 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (5:20-24) At that time Jesus said to His disciples: Except your justice abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. But I [...]
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Christ Preaching from the Boat,Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1606 Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Brethren: I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that will be revealed in us. For the eager longing of creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God. For creation was made subject to vanity – not by its own will but by [...]
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from St. Pope John Paul II
Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (5:1-11) The Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Raphael, 1515 At that time, when the multitude pressed upon Jesus to hear the word of God, He stood by the lake of Genesareth. And He saw two ships standing by the lake; but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And going up into one of the ships that was Simon's, He desired him to [...]