Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from St. Catherine of Siena
Good Shepherd Icon, Modern 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 greatest and the first [...]
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. John of the Cross
The Marriage Feast,John Everett Millais, 1864 Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Luke (14:1-11) 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. Gregory Narek
The Raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar, 1816 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 [...]
Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Fruit of the Holy Spirit (Stained Glass),Hardman & Co., cir 1870s Translation of the Epistle for the Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Gal. 5:16-24) Brethren: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you would. But if you are led by the Spirit, [...]
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — A Message From St. John Chrysostom
Mammon, W.T. Horton, 1898 Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (6:24-33) At that time Jesus said to His disciples: No man can serve two masters; for he will hate the one and love the other, or he will sustain the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall [...]