Sunday After the Ascension — A Message from St. Augustine
Continuation of the Holy Gospel According to John (John 15:26-27; 16:1-4)
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, […]
Fifth Sunday after Easter – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Fifth Sunday After Easter (Jas 1: 22-27)
Dearly beloved, be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves, For if a man be a hearer […]
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 […]
Forth Sunday After Easter — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
William Hatherell, 1925
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 […]
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 […]
Low Sunday / Divine Mercy Sunday — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Matthias Stom, cir. 1640’s
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 […]