Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Christ as the Good Samaritan, Russian, Contemporary Translation of the Epistle for the 12th Sunday After Pentecost Brethren, Such confidence we have through Christ towards God. Not that we are sufficient to think anything of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit quickens. Now if the [...]
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Augustine
Good Samaritan Icon,Michael Kapeluck, Modern Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them. And behold a certain lawyer stood [...]
Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Healing of the Blind Man(detail of Maestà altarpiece),Duccio di Buoninsegna, btw. 1308 and 1311 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Mark 7:31-37 At that time, Jesus going out to the coasts of Tyre, came by Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. And they bring to Him one deaf and dumb, and they besought Him that He would lay His hand upon him. And taking him from [...]
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
The Pharisee and the Publican,Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 19th c. Translation of the Epistle for the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost Brethren, You know that, when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, according as you were led, Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus and no man can say, The Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of [...]
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
The Pharisee and the Publican,Barent Fabritius, 1661 Translation of the Gospel According to Luke 18:9-14 At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others. Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one was a pharisee, and the other a publican. The pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give Thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, [...]
Ninth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from St. Pope Gregory the Great
Flevit super illam, Enrique Simonet, 1892 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke At that time, when Jesus drew near to Jerusalem, seeing the city, He wept over it, saying: If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee on every [...]