Christmas Day Mass – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Pinned Post Translation for the Epistle for Christmas Day Hetoimasia Mosaic, (plaster casting from mosaic in Santa Maria Maggiore), c. 432-440 God, Who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets Whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the world: Who being the brightness of His glory and the figure of His substance, and upholding all things by the word [...]
Vigil of the Nativity — A Message from St. Pope Leo the Great
The Marriage of the Virgin, Pedro Ramirez, 1668 Translation From the Holy Gospel According to John Then Mary the Mother of Jesus was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately. But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared [...]
The Mysterious Sacramental Life of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
La prière, église Saint-Bonnet, Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Unknown (19th-20th c.) THERE IS a striking and mysterious similarity between the mortal life of Jesus Christ and His sacramental life. During His mortal life, from the Crib to the Cross, from His Birth to His Ascension, Jesus Christ lived on earth in poverty, in an almost unbroken silence, in every description of suffering, unknown, despised, neglected by nearly all mankind; and at last He was most cruelly [...]