The movement of the human soul, and human society in general, from its fallen chaotic state towards divine order is at the heart of the Blog of Padre Pio Press. Writings, ponderings, and reflections on this movement of the soul are authored by Fr. Cliff Ermatinger and by the occasional Guest Contributor. The articles and recordings are relegated to the following areas:
Throughout the Month of May,
Padre Pio Press Cordially Invites Its Readership to Join In Saying:
Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter — Fr. Ermatinger
Pinned Post
A Reading from the Gospel According to John
Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day you will realize […]
Fifth Sunday After Easter — A Message From St. Augustine
Translation of the Gospel According to John
Gang nach Emmaus (detail), Robert Zünd, 1877
At that time Jesus saith to His disciples: Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in My name, He will give it to you. Hitherto you have not asked any thing in my name: Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no more speak to you in proverbs, but I will show you plainly of the Father. In that day you shall ask in My name; and I say not to you that I will […]
Sermon del Sexto Domingo Después de Pascua — Padre Ermatinger
Sermon del Sexto Domingo Después de Pascua
Sin Transcripción
Parábola de las Vírgenes Sabias y las Insensatas, Barón Ernest Friedrich von Liphart, 1886
Cantico Espiritual de San Juan de la Cruz – Prologo
Cayendo el alma en la cuenta de lo que está obligada a hacer; viendo que la vida es breve, la senda de la vida eterna estrecha: que el justo apenas se salva, que las cosas del mundo son va- nas y engañosas, que todo se acaba y falta, como el agua que corre; el tiempo incierto, la cuenta es- trecha, la perdición muy fácil, la salvación muy difi- cultosa. Conociendo, por otra parte, la […]
Misa Diaria – Sermón del Viernes de la Quinta Semana de Pascua
Sermón del Viernes de la Quinta Semana de Pascua
Sin Transcripción
This is My Body (detail), James Seward, 2005
— Padre Ermatinger
Daily Mass – Sermon for Friday of the 5th Week of Easter
Christ, the True Vine Icon
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John.
Jesus said to his disciples: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that […]