Easter Sunday – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Resurrection of Jesus, Cecco del Caravaggio, 1650 Translation of the Epistle for Easter Sunday Brethren, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new dough, as you really are without leaven. For Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us keep festival, 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 Saint [...]
Easter Sunday – A Message from Pope Benedict XVI
The Empty Tomb, Mikhail Nesterov, 1889 Translation of the Gospel According to Mark At that time, Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming they might anoint Jesus. And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came to the sepulcher, the sun being now risen. And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the [...]
Good Friday in Three Parts (from 2023)
For Our Sins There is nothing particularly necessary about the maltreatment that Jesus suffers as part of His Passion. None of the animal sacrificial victims of the Old Law were abused prior to their sacrifice, and their slaughter was as humane as a sacrifice could be. Even the goat of Yom Kippur, upon which the sins of the Nation were placed, was simply let free. The abuse that Christ suffered prior to His death is [...]
A Hymn to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for Good Friday
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