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 [...]
Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Augustine
Christ Healing the Leper,Antonius Wierix II,Evangelicae Historiea Imagines, 1593 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (17:11-19) At that time, as Jesus was going to Jerusalem, He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee: and as He entered into a certain town, there met Him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off, and lifted up their voice, saying: Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. Whom when He saw, He said: Go, [...]
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 [...]