Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Luke (14:1-11) Parable of the Wedding Feast (Fresco) At that time, when Jesus went into the house of one of the chiefs of the Pharisees on the sabbath day to eat bread, they watched Him. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had the dropsy: and Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and the Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? [...]
Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Anthony of Padua
Jesus Raising the Widow's Son at Nain,James Tissot, 1890 Translation From the Gospel According to Luke (7:11-16) At that time, Jesus went into a city called Naim: and there went with Him His disciples, and a great multitude. And when He came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a great multitude of the city were [...]
Exaltation of the Holy Cross — A Message From St. Thomas Aquinas
Sazon Rood, Romsey Abbey, cir. 960 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to St. John (12:31-36) At that time: Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews, Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to Myself. (Now this He said, signifying what death He should die.) The multitude answered Him, We [...]
Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Augustine
Christ Healing the Leper,Antonius Wierix II,Evangelicae Historiea Imagines, 1593 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (17:11-19) At that time, as Jesus was going to Jerusalem, He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee: and as He entered into a certain town, there met Him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off, and lifted up their voice, saying: Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. Whom when He saw, He said: Go, [...]
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
The Good Samaritan,Jean-François Millet, 1846 Translation of the Epistle for the 12th Sunday After Pentecost (2 Cor 3:4-9) Brethren, Such confidence we have through Christ towards God. Not that we are sufficient to think anything of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit quickens. Now if [...]
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Gregory the Great
Good Samaritan Icon (Modern) Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (10:23-37) At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them. And behold a certain lawyer stood [...]