Fifth Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. Augustine
Translation of the Gospel According to John Gang nach Emmaus (detail), Robert Zünd, 1877 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 — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation of the Gospel According to John Risen Christ on the Mount of the Ascension, Duccio, 1311. 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 if I go [...]
Third Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. Augustine
Translation of the Gospel According to John Christ and the Apostles, Rembrandt, 1634 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 see Me: [...]
Second Sunday After Easter — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation of the Gospel According to John Jesus the Good Shepherd Icon At that time Jesus said to the Pharisees: I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth: and the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep: and the hireling flieth, because [...]
Sermon for a Nuptial Mass — Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle of St. Peter: Dearly beloved, laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation: If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but chosen and made honourable by God: Be you also as [...]
Easter Sunday – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Feast of Easter Brethren, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened: for Christ our Pasch is sacrificed. Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Continuation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew Resurrection of Christ, Zirl Parish Church, [...]