Fifth Sunday after Easter – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Man Dressing in Mirror, Joseph Christian Leyendecker, 20th c. Translation of the Epistle for the Fifth Sunday after Easter Dearly beloved, be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves, For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass: for he beheld himself and went his way, and presently forgot what [...]
Fifth Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. John Chrysostom
Throne of Preparation Icon (ivory carving), Byzantine, cir. 1000 Translation of the Gospel According to John At that time Jesus saith to His disciples: Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in My name, He will give it to you. Hitherto you have not asked any thing in my name: Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things I have spoken to you in [...]
Fourth Sunday After Easter — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday After Easter "Our Lady of the Cenacle, Pray for Us" (Armenian), Gospel, Aght’amar (MS 8772), 1391 Beloved: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration. Of His own will He has begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be, as it were, the first fruits [...]
Fourth Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. John Chrysostom
Christ Appears to the Disciples on the Mountain in Galilee, Duccio di Buoninsegna, cir. 1308-11 Translation of the Gospel According to John At that time Jesus said to His disciples: I go to Him that sent Me: and none of you asketh Me: Whither goest Thou? But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go: for [...]
Third Sunday After Easter — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
The Resurrected Christ Appearing to His Disciples, Luca Signorelli, 1514 Translation of the Gospel According to John At that time. Jesus said to His disciples: A little while, and now you shall not see Me: and again a little while, and you shall see Me: because I go to the Father. Then some of His disciples said one to another: What is this that He saith to us: A little while, and you shall not [...]
Second Sunday After Easter — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
The Good Shepherd (stained glass), Unknown Translation of the Epistle for the Second Sunday After Easter Dearly beloved, Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow His steps who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth. Who when He was reviled, did not revile: when He suffered, He threatened not, but delivered Himself to him that judged Him unjustly: who His own self bore our sins in His [...]