Fifth Sunday after Easter – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Master, It is I ?, (after) Adolph Schmitz, 19th c., Translation of the Epistle for the Fifth Sunday After Easter (Jas 1:22-27) Dearly beloved, be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves, For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass: for he beheld himself and went his way, and [...]
Fifth Sunday After Easter –A Message from Saint Pope Leo the Great
Christ Taking Leave of the Apostles,Duccio di Buoninsegna, 1308-1311 Translation of the Gospel According to John (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 [...]
Forth Sunday After Easter — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Christ Appears to His Disciples,William Hatherell, 1925 Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday of Easter Dearly beloved, every best 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. For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures. You know, my dearest brethren. And [...]
Fourth Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. Augustine
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 will not come to you: but if [...]
Third Sunday After Easter — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Jesus Appears to His Disciples(fresco, Mt. Athos), Manuel Panselinos,c. 1290 Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday After Easter (I Peter 2:11-19) Beloved: I exhort you as strangers and pilgrims to abstain from carnal desires which war against the soul. Behave yourselves honorably among the pagans; that, whereas they slander you as evildoers, they may, through observing you, by reason of your good works glorify God in the day of visitation. Be subject therefore [...]