Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine)
Saturday, May 4 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,11-16.
And it came to pass afterwards that Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a […]
Friday, May 3 : Saint John Henry Newman
My God, I adore thee, O Eternal Paraclete, the light and the life of my soul. Thou mightest have been content with merely giving me good suggestions, inspiring grace and helping from without. Thou mightest thus have led me on, cleansing me with thy inward virtue, when I changed my state from this world to […]
Friday, May 3 : Holy Gospel according to Saint John 16,5-14.
At that time Jesus said to His disciples: I go to Him that sent Me: and none of you asketh Me: Whither goest Thou? But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go. For if I […]
Thursday, May 2 : The Imitation of Christ
You have here “no lasting city,” (Heb 13,14); wherever you are, you are a stranger and a sojourner; you will never at any time have peace until you are intimately one with Christ. Why in this world do you search to right and left, when this is no place for your repose? You ought to […]
Thursday, May 2 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 10,23-28.
And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into another. Amen I say to you, you shall not finish all the cities of Israel, till the Son of man come. The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as […]
Wednesday, May 1 : Saint Augustine
The Lord Jesus’s response: “Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house ?” (Lk 2:49) does not state that God is his Father in order to affirm that Joseph is not. How are we to prove this? With Scripture, which continues (…): “He went down with them and came to Nazareth, […]
Wednesday, May 1 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 13,54-58.
At that time: Jesus coming into His country, He taught them in their synagogues, so that they wondered and said: How came this Man by this wisdom and miracles? Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude: And his sisters, are […]
Tuesday, April 30 : Saint Gregory of Nyssa
This is one of the Lord’s great precepts: that his disciples should shake off everything earthly as though it were dust… so as to let themselves be carried heavenward in one great impetus. He exhorts us to overcome sleep, to seek what is above (Col 3:1), to keep our spirits constantly on the alert and […]
Tuesday, April 30 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 25,1-13.
At that time, Jesus spoke to His disciples this parable: The Kingdom of Heaven shall be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. And five of them were foolish and five wise. But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with […]
Monday, April 29 : Saint Augustine
In the passage of this Gospel where our Lord says that he is the vine and we are the branches, he is speaking as he who is Head of the Church and of us as his members (Eph 5,30) and as “mediator between God and the human race” (1Tm 2,5). For indeed, the vine and […]
Monday, April 29 : Holy Gospel according to Saint John 15,1-7.
I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you. […]