Tenth Sunday After Pentecost – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
The Parable of the Phariseeand the Tax Collector Icon, Byzantine, Modern 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 [...]
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. John of the Cross
The Pharisees and Tax Collector Icon,Modern, Coptic 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 men, extortioners, [...]
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Jerusalem from the Traditional Spot on the Mount of Olives Where Christ Wept Over the City,John Fulleylove, 1902 Translation of the Epistle for the Ninth Sunday After Pentecost. Brethren, let us not covet evil things, as they also coveted. Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them: as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, [...]
Ninth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from St. John of the Cross
Tête de Christ, Ary Scheffer, 1849 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (19:41-47) At that time, when Jesus drew near to Jerusalem, seeing the city, He wept over it, saying: If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee on [...]
Eighth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
The Tax Collector, Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1542 Translation of the Epistle for the Eighth Sunday After Pentecost (Rom 8:12-17) Brethren: We are debtors, not to the flesh, that we should live according to the flesh, for if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the flesh, you will live. For whoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the [...]
Eighth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from Pope Benedict XVI
Jewish Money Changer, Postcard, before 1919 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (16:1-9) At that time, Jesus said to His disciples this parable: There was a certain man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods; and he called him, and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship, for now thou canst be [...]