5th Sunday of Easter – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to St. John:
Pantocrator Icon, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Philadelphia
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where […]
Sermón del Quinto Domingo de Pascua
Sermón del 5o Domingo de Pascua
Cristo Como Manzano, Sur de Alemania, c. 1880
Sin Transcripción
— Padre Ermatinger
Sermón para el Primer Viernes de Mayo de la Cuarta Semana de Pascua
Sermón para el Primer Viernes de Mayo de la Cuarta Semana de Pascua
Christ Appearing to the Apostles After the Resurrection, Szymon Czechowicz, 1758
Sin Transcripción
— Padre Ermatinger
Daily Mass – Sermon for the First Friday of May of the 4th Week of Easter
Jesus Carrying the Cross, Schwerin Cathedral, Germany
Transcription of Sermon
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John.
Jesus said to His disciples. “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so […]
Daily Mass – Sermon for Thursday of the 4th Week of Easter
Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples, Paolo Veronese, cir. 1580s
Transcription of Sermon
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John.
When Jesus had washed the disciples’ feet, he said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master nor any messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it. I am not speaking of all of you. I know those whom I have chosen. But so that the Scripture might be […]
Daily Mass – Sermon for the Feast of Saint Athanasius
Sermon for the Feast of Saint Athanasius
Transcription of Sermon
Alleluia, Alleluia.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Allelujah.
The Lord be with you.
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to St. Matthew.
Jesus said to the Twelve: ‘You will be hated by all because of my name; but whoever endures to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in one town, flee to another. Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the […]
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 honourable by God: Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God […]
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.
Continuation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew
Resurrection of Christ, Zirl Parish Church, Austria, F. Plattner, 1862
And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the first day of […]
Passion Sunday (5th Sunday in Lent) — Homily By Fr. Ermatinger
Pinned Post 
Translation of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Christ High Priest and Victim Icon
Brethren: Christ being come, a High Priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by His own blood, entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of […]
Lætáre Sunday (4th Sunday in Lent) — Sermon By Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle to the Galatians
Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael, Guercino, 1657
Brethren: it is written that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond-woman, and the other by a free-woman. But he who was of the bond- woman was born according to the flesh; but he of the free-woman was by promise. Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments; the one from Mount Sina, engendering unto bondage, which is Agar: for Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which […]