Daily Mass – Sermon for Friday of the 5th Week of Easter
Christ, the True Vine Icon
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John.
Jesus said to his disciples: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not […]
Daily Mass – Homily for Thursday of the 5th Week of Easter
Sermon on the Mount (detail), Henrik Olrik, ca. 1860
Transcription of Homily
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John.
Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
“I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.”
In the Name of the Father, and the Son, […]
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 […]