Homilies

Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday of Easter 

Dearly beloved, every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration. For of […]

Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday After Easter (I Peter 2:11-19)

Beloved: I exhort you as strangers and pilgrims to abstain from carnal desires which war against the soul. Behave yourselves honorably among the pagans; […]

Translation of the Epistle for the First Sunday After Easter (1 John 5:4-10)

Dearly beloved, whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith. Who is he that […]

Translation of the Epistle for Easter Sunday

Brethren, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new dough, as you really are without leaven. For Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us keep festival, not […]

Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

Brethren: it is written that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond-woman, and the other by a free-woman. But he who was of the bond-woman was born […]

Translation of the Epistle for the Second Sunday of Lent

Brethren: Even as you have learned from us how you ought to walk to please God – as indeed you are walking – we beseech and exhort you in the Lord […]

Translation of the Epistle for Quinquagesima Sunday

Brethren: If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And if I […]

Translation of the Epistle for Septuagessima Sunday

Brethren: Do you not know that those who run in a race, all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run as to obtain it. […]

Translation of the Reading for the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I send My Angel, and he shall prepare the way before My face; and presently […]