Welcome to the Latin Mass illuminated.
Today we listen to the readings for the 9th Sunday after pentecost. IN this year of Our Lord 2025 it falls on the 10th of August.
Before we listen to the readings lets be ready to meditate on the theme Holy Mother Church presents to us in celebration of this day.

Introit
Implore God for help and assistance against all temptations from visible and invisible enemies, and say with the priest at the Introit:
Behold, God is my helper, and the Lord is the support of my soul: turn out the evils upon my enemies, and cut them off in thy truth, oh Lord, my protector. Save me, by Thy Name and deliver me in Thy strength. Amen
Collect
Let Thy merciful ears, Oh Lord, be open to the prayers of Thy people: and that Thou mayest grant their desire to those that seek; make them to ask such things as shall please Thee Through Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
EPISTLE,
This epistle is taken from First Corinthians, chapter 10 verses 6 to 13
Brethren: Let us not covet evil things, as they also coveted. Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them: as it is written:
"The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.'
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day three-and-twenty thousand.
Neither let us tempt Christ: as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents.
Neither do you murmur : as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the end of the world are come.
Wherefore let him that thinketh himself to stand, take heed lest he fall. Let no temptation take hold on you but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able : but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it. Amen
We will draw aside a little; while I will share with you a few words by the holy priest Father Leonard Goffine’s as he ponders on the epistle
can we sin by thought and desire?
Yes, if we desire wrong and forbidden things, or voluntarily think of them with pleasure, even though the deed is not done;
for God prohibits not only evil deeds, but evil thoughts and desires, as for the neighbor's wife or goods.
Christ says that he who looks upon a woman with evil desire, has already committed adultery. But evil, wicked thoughts,
and imaginings are sinful only when a person, knowing that they are bad, consents and persists in them; ; but if he fights against them with disgust for them, He will even deserve reward.
For this reason God sometimes permits even the just to be tempted by them.
What is meant by tempting God?
Demanding presumptuously a mark or sign of divine omnipotence, goodness, or justice. This sin is committed when without cause we desire, that articles of faith should be demonstrated and confirmed by a new miracle ; when we throw ourselves needlesly into danger of death , or danger for the soul , hoping God will save us ; when in dangerous illness the ordinary remedies are rejected, and all trusted to God.
Is it a great sin to murmur against God?
That it is such, may be learned from the punishment which God
inflicted on the murmuring Israelites; for besides Kore, Dathan,
and Abiron whom the earth devoured, many thousands of them were consumed by fire ; and yet these had not murmured against God directly, but only against Moses and Aaron whom God had placed over them as their leaders. From this it is seen, that God looks upon murmuring against spiritual and civil authority, instituted by Him, as murmuring against Himself. Hence Moses said to the Israelites