Epiphany Sermons

2004

  Epiphany IAlternate—The Baptism of Our Lord - 2004
  Epiphany III - The Faith of the Centurion - 2004
  Transfiguration - 2004

2003

  Epiphany IAlternate—The Baptism of Our Lord - 2003
  Epiphany II - The Wedding at Cana - 2003
  Transfiguration - 2003

2002

  Epiphany IAlternate—The Baptism of Our Lord - 2002
  The Trasfiguation of Our Lord - 2002

2001

  Epiphany 1 Alternate—The Baptism of Our Lord
  Epiphany 4—Jesus Calms the Storm (Matthew 8:23-27)

2000

  Epiphany 1-B – The Baptism of Our Lord
  Epiphany 4-B – Jesus Teaches and Exorcises a Demon
  Epiphany 5-B – Jesus Heals Simon’s Mother-In-Law (Mark 1:29-39)
  Epiphany 6-B – Jesus Heals the Leper (Mark 1:40-45)
  Epiphany 7-B – Jesus’ Heals and Forgives (Mark 2:1-12)
  Epiphany 8-B – From Fasting to Feasting with the Bridegroom (Mark 2:18-22)
  Transfiguration B – Only Jesus (Mark 9:2-9)

St. Augustine, in Sermon 4 on the Epiphany (De Temp. 42). From Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers, vol. 1, p. 198.

These Wise Men, what were they but the first fruits of the Gentiles? The shepherds were Israelites, the Magi Gentiles. The former from close by, the latter from far away; both hasten to the Corner Stone. (Again, from Serm. 2.) Jesus is made manifest neither to the learned nor to the just. For ignorance dominated the rusticity of the shepherds, impiety the practices of the Magi. But that Corner Stone joins them both to Himself, Who came to select the foolish that He might confound the wise, and to call not the just but the sinners to repentance; so that no great one might take pride in himself, and no lowly one despair.

 

   


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