Sunday After the Ascension — A Message From St. John Chrysostom
Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John
The Stoning of Saint Stephen, Rembrandt, 1625
At that time Jesus said to His disciples: When the Paraclete cometh, Whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, Who proceedeth from the Father, He shall give testimony of Me: and you shall give testimony, because you are with Me from the beginning. These things have I spoken […]
Fifth Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. Augustine
Translation of the Gospel According to John
Gang nach Emmaus (detail), Robert Zünd, 1877
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 thing in my name: Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things […]
Fourth Sunday After Easter — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation of the Gospel According to John
Risen Christ on the Mount of the Ascension, Duccio, 1311.
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 […]
Third Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. Augustine
Translation of the Gospel According to John
Christ and the Apostles, Rembrandt, 1634
At that time. Jesus said to His disciples: A little while, and now you shall not see Me: and again a little while, and you shall see Me: because I go to the Father. Then some of His disciples said one to another: What is this that He saith to us: A little while, and […]
Second Sunday After Easter — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation of the Gospel According to John
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 and leaveth the sheep and flieth: and the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep: […]
Sermon for a Nuptial Mass — Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle of St. Peter:
Dearly beloved, laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation: If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but chosen and made […]
Easter Sunday – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Feast of Easter
Brethren, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened: for Christ our Pasch is sacrificed. Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.