First Sunday of Advent — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the First Sunday of Advent (Rom 13:11-14)
Fra Angelico, 1435-40
Brethren, knowing the time, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. The night is past, and the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and put on the armor of […]
24th and Last Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the 24th and Last Sunday After Pentecost (Col 1:9-14)
Brethren: We have been praying for you unceasingly, asking that you may be filled with knowledge of God’s will, in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. May you walk worthily of God and please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every […]
Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost – Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost (Phl 3:17-21; 4:1-3)
Brethren: Be imitators of me, and mark those who walk after the pattern you have in us. For many walk, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the Cross of Christ. Their end is ruin, their god is the belly, their […]
Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the 21st Sunday After Pentecost (Eph 6:10-17)
Brethren: Be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of His power. Put on the armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the Principalities and the Powers, against the world rulers of […]
Feast of Christ the King — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
C.B. Chambers, cir. 1920-50
Translation of the Epistle for the Feast of Christ the King (Col 1:12-20)
Brethren: We give thanks to God the Father Who has made us worthy to share the lot of the saints in light. He has rescued us from the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, in Whom we have our redemption through His blood, the remission […]
Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Brethren, I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Jesus Christ, that in all things you are made rich in Him in all utterance and in all knowledge, as the testimony of Christ […]
Marten de Vos, c. 1600
Translation of the Epistle for the Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Brethren, I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Jesus Christ, that in all things you are made rich in Him in all utterance and in all knowledge, as the testimony of Christ […]
Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
K. Lebedev, Modern
Translation of the Epistle for the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (Eph 4:1-6)
Brethren: I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, careful to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace: one body […]
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost — Homily by Fr. Ermatinger
Translation of the Epistle for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Eph. 3:13-21)
Brethren: I pray you not to be disheartened at my tribulations for you, for they are your glory. For this reason I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from Whom all fatherhood in heaven and on earth receives its name, that He may grant […]
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Jean-François Millet, 1846
Translation of the Epistle for the 12th Sunday After Pentecost (2 Cor 3:4-9)
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 letter kills, but the […]
Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Domenico Maggiotto, cir. 1740s
Translation of the Epistle for the Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost (1 Cor 15:1-10)
Brethren: I recall to your minds the Gospel that I preached to you, which also you received, wherein also you stand, through which also you are being saved, if you hold it fast, as I preached it to you – unless you have believed to no purpose. […]