Last Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Gregory the Great
Translation of the Gospel According to St. Deësis Mosaic (Detail),Hagia Sophia, c. 1261 At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: When you shall see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (he that reads, let him understand:) then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains and he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take anything [...]
Sixth Sunday After Epiphany Resumed — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Parable of the Mustard Seed Icon Translation of the Epistle for the Sixth Sunday After Epiphany Resumed Brethren: We give thanks to God always for you all, making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing, being mindful of the work of your faith and labor and charity, and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father: knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election: for our [...]
Resumed 6th Sunday After Epiphany — A Message From St. Pope Pius X
Parable of the Mustard Seed (etching, Bowyer Bible),Jan Luyken, 1650 Translation of the Gospel According to St. Matthew At that time Jesus spoke to the multitudes this parable: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field: which is the least indeed of all seeds: but when it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs and becomes a tree, so that [...]
Fifth Sunday After Epiphany Resumed — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
The Harvesters, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, 1623 Translation for the Epistle for the Fifth Sunday After Epiphany resumed. Brethren: Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience: bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also. But above all these things have charity, which is the [...]
Resumed Fifth Sunday After Epiphany — A Message From St. Pope John Paul II
Haymaking, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565 Translation of the Gospel According to St. Matthew At that time Jesus spoke this parable to the multitudes: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat, and went his way. And when the blade was sprung up and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle. [...]
Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (4th Sunday After Epiphany Resumned) — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation for the Epistle of the 24th Sunday after Pentecost / Fourth Sunday After Epiphany Resumed Jesus Sleeping During the Storm (illustration),John Lawson, cir. 1890 Brethren: Owe no man anything except to love one another; for you who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law. For thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet; and if there is any other [...]