Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message from St. Catherine of Siena
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 […]
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Eph. 3:13-21)
Brethren: I pray you not to be disheartened at my tribulations for you, for they are your glory. For this reason I bend my […]
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Luke (14:1-11)
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 […]
Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Anthony of Padua
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 […]
Exaltation of the Holy Cross — A Message From St. Thomas Aquinas
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, […]
Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Augustine
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 […]
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
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. […]
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Gregory the Great
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 […]
Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Domenico Maggiotto, cir. 1740s
Translation of the Epistle for the Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost (1 Cor 15:1-10)
Brethren: I recall to your minds the Gospel that I preached to you, which also you received, wherein also you stand, through […]