Fifth Sunday After Easter –A Message from Pope Benedict XVI
The Last Supper,Heinrich Hofmann, 19th c. Translation of the Gospel According to John (16:23-30) At that time Jesus saith to His disciples: Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in My name, He will give it to you. Hitherto you have not asked any thing in my name: Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The [...]
Fourth Sunday After Easter — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
The Descent of the Holy Spirit Upon the Apostles Icon,Russian, 19th c. Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday After Easter (James 1:17-2) Beloved: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration. Of His own will He has begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be, as it were, the first fruits [...]
Fourth Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. Pope John Paul II
The Sermon on the Mount,Rudolf Yelin, 1912 Translation of the Gospel According to John (John 16:5-14) At that time Jesus said to His disciples: I go to Him that sent Me: and none of you asketh Me: Whither goest Thou? But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go: for if I go not, the Paraclete [...]
True Worship: Part XIII — A Talk by Fr. Ermatinger
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Third Sunday After Easter — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
The Last Sermon of Our Lord,James Tissot, 1886–94 Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday After Easter (I Peter 2:11-19) Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul, Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation. [...]
Third Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. John Chrysostom
Translation of the Gospel According to John (16:16-22) Icon of Christ, Contemporary At that time. Jesus said to His disciples: A little while, and now you shall not see Me: and again a little while, and you shall see Me: because I go to the Father. Then some of His disciples said one to another: What is this that He saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see Me: and again a [...]