Ash Wednesday

(Sermon of Pope Saint Leo the Great) I. The Lenten fast an opportunity for restoring our purityIn proposing to preach this most holy and important fast to you, dearly beloved, how shall I begin more fitly than by quoting the words of the Apostle: behold, now is the acceptable time, behold now is the day…

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Palm Sunday

(Sermon of Saint Vincent Ferrer,O.P.)      Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord,” (Saint Matthew 21:9). This text is taken as the basis of our sermon. It is a short and very devout song composed by the Holy Ghost, and today sung with devotion to Christ, when He solemnly entered…

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Easter Sunday

(Sermon of Pope Saint Gregory the Great, Father and Doctor of the Church) This great solemnity of the Sunday of the Resurrection gives us a fitting occasion for speaking to you: for it would indeed be unfitting that the tongue of our body should be silent in the praises that are clue this day; that…

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