5th Sunday After Epiphany – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
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5th Sunday After Epiphany
Wheat Field with Cornflowers, Van Gogh, 1890.
Translation of the Epistle for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany.
Brethren, put ye on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience; bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another; even as the Lord […]
Fourth Sunday After Epiphany – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Jan Brueghel the Elder, Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (detail), 1596
Transcription of Homily
4th Sunday After Epiphany
Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany.
Brethren, owe no man anything, but to love another; for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. For, thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not […]
Most Holy Name of Jesus 2022 – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Transcription of Homily
Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke.
At that time, after eight days were accomplished, that the child should be circumcised. His name was called Jesus, which was called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
The saving words of the Gospel.
In the name of the Father and the Son, the Holy Ghost, Amen.
His name shall be called Jesus. […]
Octave of Nativity 2022 – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Transcription of Homily
At that time, after eight days were accomplished that the child should be circumcised. His name was called Jesus, which was called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.
The saving words of the Gospel.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, the Holy Ghost. Amen.
His name is to be called Jesus.
We’re confronted with a number of testing periods […]
Christmas 2021 – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
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We might find these words predictable by now, we’ve heard them so many times. We perhaps are not shocked by the fact that that there’s a child to be found in a manger doesn’t really make much sense. I mean, what does a manger? We think of it is something like this; well, a manger is a feed box. So that’s the sign, there will be a baby wrapped in […]
Gaudete Sunday 2021 – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Transcription
In the Name of the Father and of the Son, the Holy Ghost, Amen.
Gaudete Sunday is the Sunday in which we are commanded by the Church to rejoice. That might sound like an odd command, saying to feel something. And it’s not said as a suggestion, it’s not presented as some sort of spiritual program to follow but were ordered to. And what does this mean?
Well, we set […]
Second Sunday of Advent 2021 – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Transcription of Homily
Translation of the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew.
At that time: When John had heard in prison the works of Christ, sending two of his disciples he said to him: Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another? And Jesus making answer said to them: Go and relate, to John what you have heard and seen. The blind […]
First Sunday of Advent 2021 – Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Transcription of Homily
Reading from the Epistle of blessed Paul, the Apostle to the Romans:
Brethren, it is now the hour for you to wake up from sleep. Because our salvation is closer than when we first accepted the Faith. The night is far gone, the day drawing near. Let us cast aside deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light. Let us live honorably, as in daylight: not in […]
Advent – Time for “Holiday Parties” or Little Lent?
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“But except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.”
—Luke 13:5
My childhood hero was Bishop Ignatius Kung.
We were told of his heroic suffering as a prisoner. The Chinese Communists (the same ones who recently gifted us with a man-made virus), permitted him to leave his solitary confinement of thirty years if he would only renounce his allegiance to Rome.
As a little boy, and later as a college student, I felt […]
The Ritual of Baptism
Jesus Christ is Head of the Mystical Body and His Body is the Church. The rites and rituals of the Catholic Church are the rites and rituals of Jesus Christ himself. St. Thomas Aquinas tells us: “The whole rite of the Christian cult is derived from Christ’s priesthood” (S. Th.III, Q. 63, a. 3). The Church also […]