Fifth Sunday After Easter –A Message from Saint Pope Leo the Great

Duccio di Buoninsegna, 1308-1311
Translation of the Gospel According to John (John 16: 23-30)
At that time Jesus saith to His disciples: Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in My name, He will give it to you. Hitherto you have not asked any […]
Fourth Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. Augustine
Translation of the Gospel According to John (John 16:5-14)
At that time Jesus said to His disciples: I go to Him that sent Me: and none of you asketh Me: Whither goest Thou? But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go: for if I go not, the Paraclete […]
Third Sunday After Easter — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger

(fresco, Mt. Athos), Manuel Panselinos,
c. 1290
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; […]
Second Sunday After Easter — A Message from St. John Paul II
Translation of the Gospel According to John (John 10:11-16)
At that time Jesus said to the Pharisees: I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming […]
Divine Mercy / Low Sunday — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation of the Gospel According to John (20:19-31)
At that time, when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and stood in the midst and […]