Fourth Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. Augustine
Translation of the Gospel According to John (John 16:5-14) At that time Jesus said to His disciples: I go to Him that sent Me: and none of you asketh Me: Whither goest Thou? But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go: for if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if [...]
Third Sunday After Easter — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Jesus Appears to His Disciples(fresco, Mt. Athos), Manuel Panselinos,c. 1290 Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday After Easter (I Peter 2:11-19) Beloved: I exhort you as strangers and pilgrims to abstain from carnal desires which war against the soul. Behave yourselves honorably among the pagans; that, whereas they slander you as evildoers, they may, through observing you, by reason of your good works glorify God in the day of visitation. Be subject therefore [...]
Second Sunday After Easter — A Message from St. John Paul II
Good Shepherd Mosaic Translation of the Gospel According to John (John 10:11-16) At that time Jesus said to the Pharisees: I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth: and the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep: and the hireling flieth, because he is [...]
Low Sunday / Divine Mercy Sunday — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
La incredulidad de Santo Tomás,Matthias Stom, cir. 1640's Translation of the Epistle for the First Sunday After Easter (1 John 5:4-10) Dearly beloved, whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only, [...]
Divine Mercy / Low Sunday — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
The Resurrected Christ Appearing to His Disciples,Luca Signorelli, 1514 Translation of the Gospel According to John (20:19-31) At that time, when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and stood in the midst and said to them: Peace be to you. And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and [...]