Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Pope Leo the Great
Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke
At that time, as Jesus was going to Jerusalem, He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee: and as He entered into a certain town, there met Him ten men that were lepers, who stood […]
The Concept of Sin: Part II — A Talk by Fr. Ermatinger
The Concept of Sin: A Seven-Headed Beast and Its Hideous Daughters
Part II — Concept of Sin in Antiquity and St. Thomas
A Message from Purgatory
Note: A soul in purgatory can do nothing to actively help her situation, and is not, by her own powers, making reparations. Instead, the soul waits upon God’s activity and His timing that the soul longingly desires have done to it. It is God who, alone, is repairing their worthless lives. To use a bad analogy, akin to a mechanic restoring a […]
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 […]