Seventh Sunday After Pentecost – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Last Judgement Fresco (detail), Church of St. Thomas a Becket, cir. 1470-1500 Brethren: I speak in a human way because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you yielded your members as slaves of uncleanness and iniquity unto iniquity, so now yield your members as slaves of justice unto sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as regards justice. But [...]
Sixth Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Ceiling Fresco, Albenga Baptistery, cir. 6th c. Translation of the Epistle for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Brethren, all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in His death. For we are buried together with Him by baptism unto death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in the newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the [...]
Sixth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from St. Pope John Paul II
Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Mark Feeding of the 4000 (fresco) At that time, when there was a great multitude with Jesus, and they had nothing to eat, calling His disciples together, He saith to them: I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with Me three days, and have nothing to eat and if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the [...]
Fifth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Woe unto You, Scribes and Pharisees,James Tissot, 1886–1894 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew At that time Jesus said to His disciples: Except your justice abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. But I say to [...]
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Wunderbarer Fischzug, Workshop of Jacob Jordaens, 1640 Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Brethren: I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that will be revealed in us. For the eager longing of creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God. For creation was made subject to vanity – not by its own will but by reason of [...]
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (woodcut),Ugo da Carpi after Raphael, cir. 1523-27 At that time, when the multitude pressed upon Jesus to hear the word of God, He stood by the lake of Genesareth. And He saw two ships standing by the lake; but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And going up into one of the ships that was Simon's, [...]