Pentecost — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Pentecost Icon Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John At that time Jesus said to His disciples, If any one love Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and will make Our abode in him: he that loveth Me not, keepeth not My words. And the word which you have heard is not Mine: but the Father's Who sent Me. These things have [...]
Daily Mass: Sermon for Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter – Fr. Ermatinger
Tapestry of Christ the King, Saint James the Greater Catholic Church, USA A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John: Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you, just as you gave him authority over all people, so that your son may give eternal life to all you gave him. Now this is [...]
Venerable Louis of Granada On Overcoming Sin
Note: It seems that this saying is a commonplace that dates back to antiquity. A close variant can be found in Cicero's De Or. 2.52.209 "Men envy chiefly their equals or inferiors when they perceive themselves left behind, and are mortified that the others have outstripped them; but there is often a strong unfavourable feeling towards superiors, which is the stronger if they are intolerably arrogant, and transgress the fair bounds of common justice [...]
Sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter — Fr. Ermatinger
Pinned Post A Reading from the Gospel According to John Jesus said to his disciples: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains with you, and will be in you. I [...]