Paul's Love for His Flock from a homily of St. John Chrysostom on 2nd Corinthians This excerpt from a homily by St. John Chrysostom, patriarch of Constantinople, on Paul's 2nd Letter to the Corinthians, is used in the Roman Office of Readings for Saturday of the 16th...
Firstborn of Many Brothers Blessed Isaac of Stella [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']J[/dropcaps]ust as the head and body of a man form one single man, so the Son of the Virgin and those he has chosen to be his members form a single man and the...
Will St. Peter’s Basilica Become a Mosque? Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]reposterous! Sensationalism! I wish. Around the year 600 AD, north Africa was a Christian heartland, with Alexandria Egypt one of the most prominent seats of Christianity. By 711 AD, it had become a Moslem empire. For...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]ake, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me. I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]ork is a four letter word, true. But is it not a curse word. As the jobless know all too well, gainful employment is a blessing. Work is an important means to an even more important end . . . life. But unending work becomes a...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]gnatius, who is also called Theophorus, to Polycarp, Bishop of the Church of the Smyrnæans, or rather, who has, as his own bishop, God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: [wishes] abundance of happiness. CHAPTER I.-- COMMENDATION AND EXHORTATION. Having obtained good proof that...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]gnatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the holy Church which is at Tralles, in Asia, beloved of God, the Father of Jesus Christ, elect, and worthy of God, possessing peace through the flesh, and blood, and passion of Jesus...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]gnatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church which has obtained mercy, through the majesty of the Most High Father, and Jesus Christ, His only-begotten Son; the Church which is beloved and enlightened by the will of Him that...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]gnatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, which is at Philadelphia, in Asia, which has obtained mercy, and is established in the harmony of God, and rejoiceth unceasingly in...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]ur faith is not founded upon empty words; nor are we carried away by mere caprice or beguiled by specious arguments. On the contrary, we put our faith in words spoken by the power of God, spoken by the Word...