Third Sunday in Lent — A Message From St. John Chrysostom
Interior with Painter, Woman Reading and Maid Sweeping, Pieter Janssens Elinga, 1665 – 1670 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (11:14-28) At that time Jesus was casting out a devil, and the same was dumb. And when He had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke, and the multitudes were in admiration at it. But some of them said: He casteth out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils. And others, tempting, asked of Him [...]
Second Sunday of Lent — A Message From St. John of the Cross
The Transfiguration (after Perugino), William Shakespeare Burton, 1882 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (17:1-9) At that time Jesus took Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: and He was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and His garments became white as snow. And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with Him. And Peter answering, said [...]
First Sunday of Lent — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
The Temptation of Christ(AI reproduction), Ary Scheffer, 1854 Translation of the Epistle for the first Sunday of Lent (2 Corinthians 6:1-10) Brethren: We exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain. For He saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee, and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time, behold now is the day of salvation. Giving no offense to any man, [...]
The First Sunday of Lent — A Message from St. Pope Leo the Great
Temptation of Christ, Vasili Surikov, 1872 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (4:1-11) At that time Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. And the tempter coming said to him: 'If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.' Who answered and said: 'It is written, [...]
Quinquagesima Sunday — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Jerusalem and Siloam, South Side,James Tissot, 1886-94 Translation of the Epistle for Quincuagestimus Sunday (1 Corinthians 13:1-13) Brethren: If I should speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, yet do not have charity, I am [...]