Fourth Sunday in Lent / Lætáre Sunday — A Message From St. Augustine
Translation of the Holy Gospel According to John (6:1-15)
Antonio Muñoz Degrain, 1909
At that time, Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee which is that of Tiberias; and a great multitude followed Him, because they saw the miracles which He did on them that were diseased. Jesus therefore […]
Third Sunday in Lent — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Eugene Joseph Verboeckhoven, 1846
Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday of Lent (Ephesians 5:1-9)
Brethren: Be followers of God, as most dear children: and walk in love, as Christ also had loved us, and had delivered Himself for us, an oblation and […]
Third Sunday in Lent — A Message From St. John Chrysostom
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. […]
Second Sunday of Lent — A Message From St. John of the Cross
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: […]
First Sunday of Lent — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
(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, […]
The First Sunday of Lent — A Message from St. Pope Leo the Great
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: […]
Quinquagesima Sunday — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
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 […]
Quinquagesima Sunday — Messages from the Fathers of the Church
James Tissot, 1886-94
Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (18:31-43)
At that time Jesus took unto Him the twelve and said to them: Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be accomplished which were written by the Prophets concerning the […]
Sexagesima Sunday — A Message From St. Augustine
Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (8:4-15)
At that time, when a very great multitude was gathered together and hastened out of the cities unto Jesus, He spoke by a similitude: The sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by […]