Forth Sunday After Easter — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
William Hatherell, 1925
Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
Dearly beloved, every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration. For of […]
Third Sunday After Easter — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
(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; […]
Low Sunday / Divine Mercy Sunday — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
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 […]
Easter Sunday — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Byzantine, 13th cent.
Translation of the Epistle for Easter Sunday
Brethren, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new dough, as you really are without leaven. For Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us keep festival, not […]
Fourth Sunday in Lent / Lætáre Sunday — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Pieter Jozef Verhaghen,1781
Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
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 […]
Second Sunday of Lent — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Melkite, 18th c.
Translation of the Epistle for the Second Sunday of Lent
Brethren: Even as you have learned from us how you ought to walk to please God – as indeed you are walking – we beseech and exhort you in the Lord […]
Quinquagesima Sunday — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Italian School, 17th c.
Translation of the Epistle for Quinquagesima Sunday
Brethren: If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And if I […]
Septuagesima Sunday — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
David Teniers the Younger, 17th c.
Translation of the Epistle for Septuagessima Sunday
Brethren: Do you not know that those who run in a race, all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run as to obtain it. […]
Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Reading for the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I send My Angel, and he shall prepare the way before My face; and presently […]
Third Sunday After Epiphany — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Nicolaes Cornelisz Moyaert, 1632
Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday after Epiphany
Brethren: Be not wise in your own conceits. To no man rendering evil for evil: providing good things not only in the sight of God, but also in the […]