[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]o Proba, a devoted handmaid of God, Bishop Augustine, a servant of Christ and of Christ's servants, sends greetings in the Name of the Lord of Lords. CHAPTER I 1. Recollecting your request and my promise, that as soon as time and...
Here Augustine explains the necessary and important role of trials in the Christian life. Without the discipline of trials and chastisements, there would be no true spiritual growth. Chastisement means that God has truly adopted us as sons....
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps]s we have heard, so also have we seen. Truly blessed Church! You have both heard and seen. You have heard the promises, and you see their fulfilment; you have heard in prophecy, and you see in the Gospel. Yes,...
With Introduction by C. S. Lewis ________________________________________ Athanasius stood contra mundum ("against the world) in defense of the biblical doctrine of Christ. He opposed Arius when it seemed all the world would follow Arius's heresy. Athanasius's work remains even today one of the definitive statements of...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']S[/dropcaps]aint Paul rejoices in the knowledge that spiritual health has been restored to the human race. Death entered the world through Adam, he explains, but life has been given back to the world through Christ. Again he says: The first...
This is a sampling of accolades from interfaith leaders on the occasion of the death of John Paul II in April 2005. * * * Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles "No Pope did more for the Jews." --- --- --- New York Board...
PART 1. THE TWO WAYS THE WAY OF LIFE 1. There are two Ways: a Way of Life and a Way of Death, and the difference between these two Ways is great. The Way of Life is this: "Thou shalt love first the Lord thy Creator, and secondly...
This prayer was a favorite of St. Ignatius of Loyola and was included at the beginning of his Spiritual Exercises. For this reason, it has often been supposed that St. Ignatius is the author of this prayer, but this is incorrect since the prayer was...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]HAPTER I St. Ambrose states that after the explanations he has already given of holy living, he will now explain the Mysteries. Then after giving his reasons for not having done so before, he explains the mystery of the opening of...
Not only were the prophets and apostles sent by the Spirit, but also the Son of God. This is proved from Isaiah and the evangelists, and it is explained why St. Luke wrote that the same Spirit descended like a dove upon Christ and abode...