Easter Sunday – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Resurrection of Jesus, Cecco del Caravaggio, 1650 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. Continuation of the Holy Gospel According to Saint [...]
Easter Sunday – A Message from Pope Benedict XVI
The Empty Tomb, Mikhail Nesterov, 1889 Translation of the Gospel According to Mark At that time, Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming they might anoint Jesus. And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came to the sepulcher, the sun being now risen. And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the [...]