Welcome to the Latin Mass illuminated.
Today we listen to the readings for the 10th Sunday after pentecost. IN this year of Our Lord 2025 it falls on the 17th 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.

10th Sunday after Pentecost
The church gives us today a true notion of Christian humility.
The liturgy reminds us that the humble soul is pleased to recognise it's nothingness
Only on this condition (and the soul knows it) will the virtue of our Lord Jesus Christ dwell in us
The Introit
When I cried to the Lord he heard my voice
From them that draw near to me. And he humbled them
He who is before all ages and remains forever.
Cast thy care upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee.
Hear oh God my prayer and despise not my supplication.
Be attentive to me and hear me.
Glory be to the father and to the son and to the Holy Ghost as it was in the beginning is now and ever Shall be.
secula seculorum amen
The collect
Oh God who did manifest thine Almighty power most chiefly in sparing and showing mercy.
Multiply upon us thy mercy; that as we hasten toward thy promises thou must make us partaker of the heavenly treasures.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ amen.
The epistle
lesson from the epistle of blessed Paul the apostle to the Corinthians
Corinthians one chapter 12 verses 2 to 11
Our acts are only supernatural if they proceed from the Holy Ghost.
Without his aid we are powerless and given to sin we are not even able to pronounce the name of Jesus, affirming his divinity save by his inspiration.
Saint Paul says:
Brother you know that when you were heathens you went to dumb idles according as you were lead.
Wherefore I give you to understand that no man speaking by the spirit of God Sayeth Anathema to Jesus and no man can say: the Lord is Jesus, but by the holy Ghost.
Now there are diversities of graces but the same spirit; and there are diversity of ministries but the same Lord; and there are diversities of operations but the same God who work with all in all.
And the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man onto profit
To one indeed by the spirit is given the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge; According to the same spirit
To another, grace of healing in one spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another the discerning of spirits; to another diverse kinds of tongues to another interpretation of speeches.
But all these things one and the same spirit worketh dividing to everyone according as he will.
EXPLANATION.
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. Father writes:
The apostle here reminds the Corinthians converted from heathenism of the great grace they received from God in their conversion, and urges them to be grateful for it; for while heathens they cursed Jesus, but being now brought to the knowledge of the Spirit of God, they possess Christ as their Lord and Redeemer, who can be known and professed only by the enlightment of the Holy Ghost.
This, as all other graces which they have received from God, is a free gift of the Holy Ghost who gives to whomsoever He pleases and who alone produces all
the effect of them.
The Holy Ghost gives these graces together with the word of wisdom to impart to others and to instruct in the mysteries of the Christian religion.
He gives the gift of healing sickness, the gift of miracles and of prophecy, the gift of discerning spirits, to know if one is governed by the Spirit of Go