Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from St. Pope John Paul II
Christ Healing the Paralytic (fresco),Vysokie Dechany, Serbia, 4th c. Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (9:1-8) At that time, Jesus entering into a boat, passed over the water and came into His own city. And behold they brought Him one sick of the palsy lying on a bed and Jesus seeing their faith, said to the sick man of the palsy: Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee. And behold [...]
Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Jesus in Conversation with the Pharisees,K. Lebedev, Modern Translation of the Epistle for the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (Eph 4:1-6) Brethren: I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, careful to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace: one body and one Spirit, even [...]
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? [...]