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 […]
Divine Mercy / Low Sunday — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Luca Signorelli, 1514
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 […]
Easter Sunday — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Byzantine, 13th cent.
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 […]
Easter Sunday — A Message from St. Pope John Paul II
imitator of Andrea Mantegna,
cir. 1460-1550
Translation of the Gospel According to Mark (16:1-7)
At that time, Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming they might anoint Jesus. And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came […]