Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI

Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew

Christ Clashes with the Pharisees, Cathedral of Tours

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 […]

By |September 24th, 2023|Categories: Spiritual Growth, Traditional Liturgy|

Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Saint John Chrysostom

Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Luke

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 dropsy: and Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and the Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? […]

By |September 17th, 2023|Categories: Spiritual Growth, Traditional Liturgy|

Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger

Translation of the Epistle for the 14th Sunday After Pentecost

Brethren, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh: for the flesh lusts against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another; so that you do not the things that you would. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the […]

By |September 4th, 2023|Categories: Homilies, Traditional Liturgy|

Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Augustine

Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew

Forest Meadow, Hans Thoma, 1876

At that time Jesus said to His disciples: No man can serve two masters; for he will hate the one and love the other, or he will sustain the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore […]

By |September 3rd, 2023|Categories: Spiritual Growth, Traditional Liturgy|

Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost –Homily by Fr. Ermatinger

Translation of the Epistle for the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost

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. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit: for the […]

By |August 21st, 2023|Categories: Homilies, Spiritual Growth, Traditional Liturgy|
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