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02 Jan Sts Basil and Gregory, Two Bodies One Spirit – Gregory Nazianzen

01 - January, 01/02 Basil & Gregory Nazianzen, About Saints, Articles, Author, By Saints, Calendar, Doctors, Doctors, Early Fathers, Fathers, Fathers, Golden Age, Gregory of Nazianzen, Saints 4 Comments

...and Gregory Nazianzen. For more on St. Basil’s life and for some excerpts from his writings, click here. Basil was born of a Christian family at Caesarea in Cappadocia in...

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22 Feb Imitate God’s Generosity – Gregory Nazianzen

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...and stewardship is an excerpt from a sermon on the love of poverty by Saint Gregory of Nazianzen (Oratio 14, De Pauperum amore, 23-25: PG 35, 887-890). It appears in...

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03 Jan Baptism of the Lord – Gregory Nazianzen

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Here Gregory Nazianzen points out that Christ was baptized not for his sake but for ours. Sanctifying the waters of baptism for all generations to come, he manifested the the...

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26 Oct Prayer for the Dead – Gregory Nazianzen

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...our Lord. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen. This excerpt from a sermon by St. Gregory Nazianzen (Or. 7, in laudem Caesarii fratris, 23-24: PG 35, 786-787)...

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29 Mar Observing Holy Week – Gregory of Nazianzen

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Gregory of Nazianzen here provides us a wonderful guide to meditating on the Passion of Christ in a way that will make Holy Week and the Triduum a life-changing experience....

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24 Apr St. Gregory of Nazianzen

St. Gregory of Nazianzen (aka Nazianzus) was the best friend of St. Basil the Great. After studying together in Athens, they returned to their native Cappadocia (now Eastern Turkey) to...

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24 Apr St. Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa was the younger brother of St. Basil the Great and St. Macrina. Born around 330 AD, Gregory married and spent several years of his life in secular...

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27 Jun Wonder of the Incarnation – Gregory of Nazianzen

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A lyrical tribute to the wonder and mystery of the Incarnation by Gregory of Nazianzen. He shows that the first step in the work of atonement between God and man...

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25 Mar Mercy, not Sacrifice – Gregory of Nazianzen

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...and generosity comes from a sermon by Saint Gregory of Nazianzen (Oratio 14, De Pauperum amore, 38. 40: PG 35, 907. 910). It appears in the Roman Office of Readings...

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31 Aug Is the Filioque a Church-Dividing Issue?

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...in the community, remains crucially necessary. Gregory Nazianzen reminds us, in his Fifth Theological Oration on the divinity of the Holy Spirit, that the Church’s slow discovery of the Spirit’s...

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