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24th and Last Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger

The Last Judgment, Jean Cousin, 1560

Translation of the Epistle for the 24th and Last Sunday After Pentecost

Brethren: We have been praying for you unceasingly, asking that you may be filled with knowledge of God’s will, in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. May you walk worthily of God and please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God. May you be […]

By |November 25th, 2024|Categories: Audio, Homilies, TLM, Traditional Liturgy|

Sixth Sunday After Epiphany Resumed — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger

Parable of the Mustard Seed Icon

Translation of the Epistle for the Sixth Sunday After Epiphany Resumed

Brethren: We give thanks to God always for you all, making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing, being mindful of the work of your faith and labor and charity, and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father: knowing, brethren beloved of God, your […]

By |November 18th, 2024|Categories: Audio, Homilies, TLM, Traditional Liturgy|

Fifth Sunday After Epiphany Resumed — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger

The Harvesters, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, 1623

Translation for the Epistle for the Fifth Sunday After Epiphany resumed.

Brethren: Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience: bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also. But above all these things have […]

By |November 11th, 2024|Categories: Audio, Homilies, TLM, Traditional Liturgy|

Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (4th Sunday After Epiphany Resumned) — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger

Translation for the Epistle of the 24th Sunday after Pentecost / Fourth Sunday After Epiphany Resumed

Jesus Sleeping During the Storm (illustration),
John Lawson, cir. 1890

Brethren: Owe no man anything except to love one another; for you who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law. For thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet; and if there […]

By |November 4th, 2024|Categories: Audio, Homilies, TLM, Traditional Liturgy|

Feast of Christ the King – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger

Christ the King (illumination),
Jean Bourdichon,
The Great Hours of Anne of Brittany,
1503-8

Translation of the Epistle for the Feast of Christ the King

Brethren, giving thanks to God the Father, Who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love. In Whom we […]

By |October 28th, 2024|Categories: Audio, Homilies, TLM, Traditional Liturgy|

Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger

The Tribute Money,
James Tissot, 1886-94

Translation of the Epistle for the 22nd Sunday After Pentecost

Brethren, I am convinced in the Lord Jesus, that he, who has begun a good work in you, will bring it to perfection until the day of Christ Jesus; and I have the right so to feel about you all because I have you in my heart, all of you alike in my chains, and in […]

By |October 21st, 2024|Categories: Audio, Homilies, TLM, Traditional Liturgy|

Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger

Christ the Word of God Icon
(after Hebrews 4:12), Modern

Translation of the Epistle for the 21st Sunday After Pentecost

Brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the might of His power. Put you on the armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the […]

By |October 14th, 2024|Categories: Audio, Homilies, TLM, Traditional Liturgy|

Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger

Jesus Performs Miracles at Capernaum,
William Brassey Hole, 1913

Translation of the Epistle for the 20th Sunday After Pentecost

Brethren: Keep careful watch over your conduct. Do not act like fools, but like wise men make the most of every opportunity, for these are evil days. Therefore do not be thoughtless; but know how to discern the will of the Lord. Do not get drunk on wine, for that leads to debauchery. […]

By |October 7th, 2024|Categories: Audio, Homilies, TLM, Traditional Liturgy|

Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel on the 19th Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger

St. Michael the Archangel Icon, Modern

Translation of the Epistle for the Feast of the Dedication of St. Michael

In those days God made known the things which must shortly come to pass: and signified, sending by his angel to his servant John, Who hath given testimony to the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, what things soever he hath seen. Blessed is he that readeth and heareth […]

By |September 30th, 2024|Categories: Audio, Homilies, TLM, Traditional Liturgy|

Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger

Jesus Heals the Paralyzed Man,
Icon, Modern

Translation of the Epistle for the 18th Sunday After Pentecost

Brethren: I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, because in everything you have been enriched in Him, in all utterance and in all knowledge; even as the witness to the Christ has been made so firm in you that you lack […]

By |September 23rd, 2024|Categories: Audio, Homilies, TLM, Traditional Liturgy|

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