Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Leo XIII
Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew The Worship of Mammon,Evelyn De Morgan, 1909 At that time Jesus said to His disciples: No man can serve two masters; for he will hate the one and love the other, or he will sustain the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what [...]
Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Jesus Heals the Ten Lepers,Flemish Master, cir. 17th c. Translation of the Epistle for the 13th Sunday After Pentecost Brethren, To Abraham were the promises made, and to his seed. He saith not: And to his seeds, as of many; but as of one: And to thy seed, which is Christ. Now this I say, that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years, doth [...]
Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Anthony of Padua
Christ Healing the Lepers,Niccolò Vicentino (after Parmigianino), 1540-50 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke At that time, as Jesus was going to Jerusalem, He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee: and as He entered into a certain town, there met Him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off, and lifted up their voice, saying: Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. Whom when He saw, He said: Go, show yourselves [...]
The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Gospel According to St. Luke The Dormition of the Virgin Mary(mosaic in the apse of Santa Maria Maggiore),Jacopo Torriti, 1296 At that time: Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold as [...]
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 [...]