Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
The Good Samaritan,Jean-François Millet, 1846 Translation of the Epistle for the 12th Sunday After Pentecost (2 Cor 3:4-9) Brethren, Such confidence we have through Christ towards God. Not that we are sufficient to think anything of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit quickens. Now if [...]
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Gregory the Great
Good Samaritan Icon (Modern) Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (10:23-37) At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them. And behold a certain lawyer stood [...]
Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Christ Healing a Deaf and Dumb Man,Domenico Maggiotto, cir. 1740s Translation of the Epistle for the Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost (1 Cor 15:1-10) Brethren: I recall to your minds the Gospel that I preached to you, which also you received, wherein also you stand, through which also you are being saved, if you hold it fast, as I preached it to you - unless you have believed to no purpose. For I delivered to you [...]
Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Pope John Paul II
Healing of the Deaf-Mute Man,Russian, 1908 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Mark (7:31-37) At that time, Jesus going out to the coasts of Tyre, came by Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. And they bring to Him one deaf and dumb, and they besought Him that He would lay His hand upon him. And taking him from the multitude apart, He put His fingers into [...]
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
The Parable of the Publicanand the Pharisee,Rembrandt, c. 1650 1655 Translation of the Epistle for the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost (1 Cor 12:2-11) Brethren, You know that, when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, according as you were led, Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus and no man can say, The Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there [...]
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. John Chrysostom
The Tax Collector and the Pharisee,Raymond Quinsac Monvoisin, 1865 Translation of the Gospel According to Luke (18:9-14) At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others. Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one was a pharisee, and the other a publican. The pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give Thee thanks that I am not as the rest of [...]