Last Sunday After Pentecost – A Message From St. John Chrysostom
Statue of Christ the King, Unknown Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew 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 [...]
Sixth Supplementary Sunday After Epiphany – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the 6th Sunday After Epiphany 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 Gospel hath not been unto you in [...]
Resumed 6th Sunday after Epiphany – A Message From St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Parable of the Mustard Seed Icon Translation From the Holy Gospel According to 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 the birds of the [...]
Resumed 5th Sunday After Epiphany – A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
The Veteran in a New Field, Winslow Homer, 1865 Translation From the Holy Gospel According to 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 [...]
Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the 23rd Sunday After Pentecost ' Daughter and The Woman with The Hemorrhage Icon, Modern Brethren, be followers of me, and observe them who walk so as you have our model. For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping), that they are enemies of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their [...]
Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost – A Message From St. John Chrysostom
Thread of Faith, Howard Lyon, Modern Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew At that time, as Jesus was speaking to the multitudes, behold a certain ruler came up, and adored Him, saying: Lord, my daughter is even now dead; but come lay Thy hand upon her, and she shall live. And Jesus, rising up, followed him, with His disciples. And behold a woman, who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve years, [...]