Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Christ Among the Pharisees,Jacob Jordaens, cir. 1660 Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew At that time the Pharisees came to Jesus, and one of them, a doctor of the law, asked Him, tempting Him: Master, which is the great commandment of the law? Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and [...]
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Thomas Aquinas
Boy Pulling a Mule,Charles Grant Beauregard,cir. late 19th early 20th c. Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Luke At that time, when Jesus went into the house of one of the chiefs of the Pharisees on the sabbath day to eat bread, they watched Him. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had the dropsy: and Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and the Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal [...]
Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost Jesus Raises the Widow's Son at Nain,Johann Zick, c. 1752 Brethren: If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us walk. Let us not become desirous of vainglory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, even if a person is caught doing something wrong, you who are spiritual instruct such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be [...]
Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Pope John Paul II
Miracolo Della Vedova di Naim,Mario Minniti, btw. 1620-40 Translation From the Gospel According to Luke At that time, Jesus went into a city called Naim: and there went with Him His disciples, and a great multitude. And when He came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a great multitude of the city were with her. [...]
Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the 14th Sunday After Pentecost Christ Enthroned Saviour of the World,Russian, 18th century Brethren, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh: for the flesh lusts against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another; so that you do not the things that you would. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under [...]
Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Leo XIII
Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew The Worship of Mammon,Evelyn De Morgan, 1909 At that time Jesus said to His disciples: No man can serve two masters; for he will hate the one and love the other, or he will sustain the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what [...]