Homilies — Traditional Latin Mass

Continuation of the Epistle for Easter Sunday (1 Corinthians 5:7-8)

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 with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Translation of the Epistle for Passion Sunday (Hebrews 9:11-15)

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 […]

Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday in Lent (Galatians 4:22-31)

Brethren: It is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a slave-girl and the other by a free woman. And the son of the slave-girl was born according to the flesh, but the son of the free woman in virtue of the promise. This is said by way […]

Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday of Lent (Ephesians 5:1-9)

Brethren: Be followers of God, as most dear children: and walk in love, as Christ also had loved us, and had delivered Himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweetness. But fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among […]

Translation of the Epistle for the first Sunday of Lent (2 Corinthians 6:1-10)

Brethren: We exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain. For He saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee, and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time, behold now is the day of salvation. Giving no […]

Translation of the Epistle for Quincuagestimus Sunday (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)

Brethren: If I should speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all […]

Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday after Epiphany (Romans 12:16-21)

Brethren: Be not wise in your own conceits. To no man rendering evil for evil: providing good things not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of men. If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men. Not Revenge yourselves, my dearly beloved, […]

Translation of the Epistle for the Feast of the Holy Family (Colossians 3:12-17)

Brethren: Put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, patience. Bear with one another and forgive one another, if anyone has a grievance against any other; even as the Lord has forgiven you, so also do you forgive. But above all […]

Translation of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians (5:22-33)

Brethren, let wives be subject to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the savior of His body. Therefore, as the Church is subject to Christ, so also let the […]

Translation of the Epistle for the Feast of the Circumcision (Titus 2:11-15)

Beloved: The grace of God our Savior has appeared to all men, instructing us, in order that, rejecting ungodliness and worldly lusts, we may live temperately and justly and piously in this world; looking for the blessed hope and glorious […]