Fourth Sunday After Easter — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday After Easter
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 it were, […]
Second Sunday After Easter — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Second Sunday After Easter
Dearly beloved, Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow His steps who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth. Who when He was reviled, did not revile: when He suffered, He threatened not, but delivered Himself to him that judged Him unjustly: who His own self bore […]
Easter Sunday – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for Easter Sunday
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.
Passion Sunday (5th Sunday of Lent) — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for Passion Sunday
Brethren: When Christ appeared as high priest of the good things to come, He entered once for all through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made by hands – that is, not of this creation, – nor again by virtue of blood of goats and calves, but by virtue of His own blood, into the Holies, having obtained […]
Third Sunday of Lent – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday of Lent
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 […]
Second Sunday of Lent – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Second Sunday of Lent
Brethren: Even as you have learned from us how you ought to walk and to please God — as, indeed, you are walking — we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus to make even greater progress. For you know what precepts I have given you by the Lord Jesus. For this is the […]
Sexagesima Sunday — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Continuation of the Holy Gospel According to Saint Luke
At that time, when a very great multitude was gathered together and hastened out of the cities unto Jesus, He spoke by a similitude: The sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And other some fell […]
Third Sunday After Epiphany — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday after Epiphany
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 all men. If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men. Revenge […]
Feast of the Holy Family – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Feast of the Holy Family
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 […]
Feast of the Circumcision — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Feast of the Circumcision
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 coming of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself for […]