Third Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. Augustine
Translation of the Gospel According to John Christ and the Apostles, Rembrandt, 1634 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: [...]
Second Sunday After Easter — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation of the Gospel According to John Jesus the Good Shepherd Icon At that time Jesus said to the Pharisees: I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth: and the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep: and the hireling flieth, because [...]
Sermon for a Nuptial Mass — Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle of St. Peter: Dearly beloved, laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation: If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but chosen and made honourable by God: Be you also as [...]
Easter Sunday – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Feast of Easter Brethren, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened: for Christ our Pasch is sacrificed. Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Continuation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew Resurrection of Christ, Zirl Parish Church, [...]
Easter Sunday — A Message From St. Pope John Paul II
Translation of the Gospel According to Mark Le Saintes Femmes au Tombeau, William Bouguereau, cir. 1890 At that time, Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming they might anoint Jesus. And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came to the sepulcher, the sun being now risen. And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone [...]
Palm Sunday (6th Sunday in Lent) — The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew. St Matthew Passion - J. S. Bach Where C. =Cronicler J. = Jesus and S. = the Rest Christus im Getsemani-Garten betend, Hermann Clementz, ca. 1900 C. Then Jesus came with them into a country place which is called Gethsemani; and He said to His disciples: J. Sit you here, till I go yonder and pray. C. And taking with Him Peter [...]