Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine)
Sunday, June 14 : Saint Jerome
“Return to me with all your heart” and prove that your repentance is genuine “by fasting and weeping and lamentation”. Fast now and you will feast hereafter; weep now and you will laugh hereafter. Present mourning brings future joy… Well, I say it is not your garments you must rend but your sinful hearts which, […]
Sunday, June 14 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 15,1-10.
Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them. And he spoke to them this parable, saying: What man of you that hath an hundred sheep, and if he shall lose one of them, doth he […]
Saturday, June 13 : Saint Maximus the Confessor
The lamp on the lampstand is our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Father’s true light “who enlightens everyone coming into the world” (Jn 1:9): in other words, the Father’s Wisdom and Word. Having accepted our flesh, he truly became, and was called, the “light of the world”. By our faith and devotion he is […]
Saturday, June 13 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 5,13-19.
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men. You are the light of the world. A city […]
Friday, June 12 : Saint Germanus of Constantinople
“The people who sit in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwell in the land of gloom a light has shone” (Is 9,1), the light of redemption. When they saw that the tyrant, death, was wounded to death, this people came out from darkness to light; from death they passed to life. […]
Friday, June 12 : Holy Gospel according to Saint John 19,31-37.
Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: and that they might be taken away. The soldiers therefore came: and they broke the legs of the first, […]
Thursday, June 11 : Saint Francis Xavier
According to the people here we run two dangers. The first is that, after taking our money, our guide may leave us on some deserted island or throw us into the sea so as to escape the governor of Canton. The second is that, supposing he leads us to Canton and we come into the […]
Thursday, June 11 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 10,16-22.
Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues. And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings for my sake, for […]
Wednesday, June 10 : Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
It was Christ who was present to all those to whom, from the beginning, God communicated his Speech and Word. If any one, therefore, reads the Scriptures with attention, he will find in them an expression of Christ and a foreshadowing of this new calling. For Christ is the treasure which was hidden in the […]
Wednesday, June 10 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 13,44-52.
Jesus said in parables: The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls. Who when he […]
Tuesday, June 9 : Saint Gregory Nazianzen
Let us keep an eye on our neighbor’s well-being, whether in good health or struck by sickness, with as much concern as we do our own. For “we are all one in the Lord” (Rom 12:5), whether rich or poor, slaves or free, well or sick. There is only one head for all of us, […]
