Eighth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Pinned Post
Translation of the Epistle for the Eighth Sunday After Pentecost (Rom 8:12-17)
Brethren: We are debtors, not to the flesh, that we should live according to the flesh, for if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if […]
Seventh Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Seventh Sunday After Pentecost (Rom 6:19-23)
Brethren: I speak a human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity for iniquity, so now yield your members to serve justice unto sanctification. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from justice. […]
Feast of St. Veronica Giuliani — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Rossano Gospel, 11th c.
Translation of the Holy Gospel for the Feast of St. Veronica Giuliani (Matt 25:1-12)
At that time Jesus spoke to his disciples this parable: The kingdom of heaven shall be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. And five of them were foolish, and five wise. But the five […]
Sixth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Sixth Sunday After Pentecost (Rom 6:3-11)
Brethren: All we who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death. For we were buried with Him by means of Baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ has arisen from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in […]
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1606
Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Brethren: I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that will be revealed in us. For the eager longing of creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God. For creation was made subject to vanity – not by […]
Sunday After the Ascension — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Byzantine – Southern Italian School, 19th c.
Translation of the Epistle for the Sunday within the Octave of Ascension (1 Peter 4:7-11)
Beloved: Be prudent and watchful in prayers. But above all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without murmuring. According to the gift that each has received, minister it to one another as […]
Fifth Sunday After Easter – Homily 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 of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass: for he beheld himself and went his way, and […]
Fourth Sunday After Easter — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Russian, 19th c.
Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday After Easter (James 1:17-2)
Beloved: Every good 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. Of His own will He has begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be, as […]
Third Sunday After Easter — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
James Tissot, 1886–94
Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday After Easter (I Peter 2:11-19)
Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul, Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God […]
Funeral Mass — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Master of the Harvard Hannibal,
cir. 1420-30
Translation of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians.
Brethren, we would not have you ignorant concerning those who are asleep, lest you should grieve as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so with him God will bring those who also have fallen asleep through Jesus. For this, we say to you […]