Easter II The Epistle St. Peter 2.19 This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? But if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye
Continue readingEaster I The Gospel St. John 20.19 The same day at evening, being the first day of the week ; When the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews : Came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them : Peace be
Continue readingPalm Sunday The Epistle. Philippians 2. 5. Brethren: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a
Continue readingPassion Sunday The Fifth Sunday in Lent The Epistle. Hebrews 9. 11. Christ, being come an high priest of good things to come, by the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves,
Continue readingThe Fourth Sunday in Lent Laetare Sunday Mothering Sunday The Epistle. Galatians 4. 21. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. I want to begin by wishing everyone here a happy Mothers Day! And before some of you think that I’ve gone slightly
Continue readingThe Third Sunday in Lent The Epistle. Ephesians 5. 1. Brethren: Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor. But fornication, and
Continue readingThe Second Sunday in Lent The Epistle. I Thessalonians 4. 1. Brethren: we beseech you, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus: that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. For ye know what commandments
Continue readingThe First Sunday in Lent The Epistle. II Corinthians 6. 1. Brethren: We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also, that you receive not the grace of God in vain; (for he saith: I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have
Continue readingQuinquagesima Sunday The Epistle. I Corinthians 13. 1. Brethren: though 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 though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge: and
Continue readingSexagesima Sunday The Gospel. St. Luke 8. 4. When much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake a parable: A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way-side; and it was trodden down, and
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