Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from St. Catherine of Siena
The Scribe Stood to Tempt Jesus,James Tissot, 1886-94 Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (22:34-46) 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 [...]
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Eph. 3:13-21) Christ Healing the Man of Dropsy (mosaic), Byzantine, Monreal Cathedral, 12-13th c. Brethren: I pray you not to be disheartened at my tribulations for you, for they are your glory. For this reason I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from Whom all fatherhood in heaven and on earth receives its name, that He may grant you from [...]
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Luke (14:1-11) Parable of the Wedding Feast (Fresco) 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 on the sabbath day? [...]
Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Anthony of Padua
Jesus Raising the Widow's Son at Nain,James Tissot, 1890 Translation From the Gospel According to Luke (7:11-16) 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 [...]
Exaltation of the Holy Cross — A Message From St. Thomas Aquinas
Sazon Rood, Romsey Abbey, cir. 960 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to St. John (12:31-36) At that time: Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews, Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to Myself. (Now this He said, signifying what death He should die.) The multitude answered Him, We [...]