Sept 21, 2026. Gospel: Matt 9:9-13. St Matthew, Apostle, Evangelist

Sept 21, 2026. Gospel: Matt 9:9-13. St Matthew, Apostle, Evangelist

Author: Ken Hagen September 21, 2026 Duration: 1:56

9 And when Jesus passed on from hence, he saw a man sitting in the custom house, named Matthew; and he saith to him: Follow me. And he rose up and followed him.
Et, cum transiret inde Jesus, vidit hominem sedentem in telonio, Matthaeum nomine. Et ait illi : Sequere me. Et surgens, secutus est eum.

 10 And it came to pass as he was sitting at meat in the house, behold many publicans and sinners came, and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
Et factum est, discumbente eo in domo, ecce multi publicani et peccatores venientes, discumbebant cum Jesu, et discipulis ejus.

 11 And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners?
Et videntes pharisaei, dicebant discipulis ejus : Quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducat magister vester?

 12 But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill.
At Jesus audiens, ait : Non est opus valentibus medicus, sed male habentibus.

 13 Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.
Euntes autem discite quid est : Misericordiam volo, et non sacrificium. Non enim veni vocare justos, sed peccatores.

St Matthew was a publican at the toll station at Capernaum. The publicans were looked upon as the greatest sinners by the Jews because of their many acts of injustice and extortion. Matthew himself greatly acknowledged the gracious condescension of the Lord to sinners by his humble confession. At Jesus' invitation he promptly joined him. He wrote the first gospel and preached the Good News in Palestine and in Ethiopia, where he was attacked and killed while saying Mass in 60 A.D.


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Aug 12, 2026. Gospel: Matt 25:1-13. St Clare, Virgin. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:36
1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.Tunc simile erit regnum caelorum decem virginibus : quae accipientes lampades suas exierunt…
Aug 10, 2026. Gospel: John 12:24-26. St Lawrence, Martyr. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:04
24 Amen, amen I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die,Amen, amen dico vobis, nisi granum frumenti cadens in terram, mortuum fuerit, 25 Itself remaineth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth…
Aug 9, 2026. Gospel: Mark 7:31-37. Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:27
31 And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.Et iterum exiens de finibus Tyri, venit per Sidonem ad mare Galilaeae inter medios fines…
Aug 8, 2026. Gospel: Luke 12:35-40. St John Vianney, Confessor [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:21
35 Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands.Sint lumbi vestri praecincti, et lucernae ardentes in manibus vestris, 36 And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the w…
Aug 7, 2026. Gospel: Matt 6:24-33. St Cajetan, Confessor [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:10
24 No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.Nemo potest duobus dominis servire : aut enim unum…
Aug 6, 2026. Gospel: Matt 17:1-19. Feast of the Transfiguration. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:51
1 And after six days Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart:Et post dies sex assumit Jesus Petrum, et Jacobum, et Joannem fratrem ejus, et ducit illos…
Aug 5, 2026. Gospel: Luke 11:27-28. Our Lady of the Snows. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:32
27 And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck.Factum est autem, cum haec diceret…