Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost Time — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (22:1-14) Parable of the Wedding Feast (watercolor), Selby Donnison, 1963 At that time, Jesus spoke to the chief priests and the Pharisees in parables, saying: The kingdom of Heaven is likened to a king, who made a marriage for his son; and he sent his servants, to call them that were invited to the marriage, and they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell [...]
Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost Christ Healing the Paralytic (Flemish), Marten de Vos, c. 1600 Brethren, I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Jesus Christ, that in all things you are made rich in Him in all utterance and in all knowledge, as the testimony of Christ was confirmed to you so that nothing is wanting to you [...]
Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from St. Pope John Paul II
Christ Healing the Paralytic (fresco),Vysokie Dechany, Serbia, 4th c. Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (9:1-8) At that time, Jesus entering into a boat, passed over the water and came into His own city. And behold they brought Him one sick of the palsy lying on a bed and Jesus seeing their faith, said to the sick man of the palsy: Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee. And behold [...]
Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from St. Catherine of Siena
The Scribe Stood to Tempt Jesus,James Tissot, 1886-94 Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (22:34-46) At that time the Pharisees came to Jesus, and one of them, a doctor of the law, asked Him, tempting Him: Master, which is the great commandment of the law? Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the [...]
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Eph. 3:13-21) Christ Healing the Man of Dropsy (mosaic), Byzantine, Monreal Cathedral, 12-13th c. Brethren: I pray you not to be disheartened at my tribulations for you, for they are your glory. For this reason I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from Whom all fatherhood in heaven and on earth receives its name, that He may grant you from [...]