Daily Mass – Sermon for the First Friday of May of the 4th Week of Easter
Jesus Carrying the Cross, Schwerin Cathedral, Germany
Transcription of Sermon
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John.
Jesus said to His disciples. “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare […]
Daily Mass – Sermon for Thursday of the 4th Week of Easter
Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples, Paolo Veronese, cir. 1580s
Transcription of Sermon
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John.
When Jesus had washed the disciples’ feet, he said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master nor any messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you understand this, blessed are you if […]
Daily Mass – Sermon for the Feast of Saint Athanasius
Sermon for the Feast of Saint Athanasius
Transcription of Sermon
Alleluia, Alleluia.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Allelujah.
The Lord be with you.
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to St. Matthew.
Jesus said to the Twelve: ‘You will be hated by all because of my name; but whoever endures to […]
Sermon for a Nuptial Mass — Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle of St. Peter:
Dearly beloved, laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation: If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but chosen and made […]
Easter Sunday – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Feast of Easter
Brethren, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened: for Christ our Pasch is sacrificed. Therefore let us feast, 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 Matthew
Resurrection of […]
Passion Sunday (5th Sunday in Lent) — Homily By Fr. Ermatinger
Pinned Post 
Translation of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Christ High Priest and Victim Icon
Brethren: Christ being come, a High Priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by […]
Lætáre Sunday (4th Sunday in Lent) — Sermon By Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle to the Galatians
Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael, Guercino, 1657
Brethren: it is written that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond-woman, and the other by a free-woman. But he who was of the bond- woman was born according to the flesh; but he of the free-woman was by promise. Which things are said by an allegory. […]
First Sunday in Lent — Sermon By Fr. Ermatinger
The Threefold Temptation of Christ, St. Wolfgang Altarpiece, 1471–79
Translation of the Epistle to the Corinthians
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 […]
Septuagesima Sunday — Homily By Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle to the Corinthians
Brethren: Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain. And everyone that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself […]
Fourth Sunday After Epiphany — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle to the Romans
Brethren: Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. For Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not covet: and if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The love of […]