Paul's Loving Correction St. John Chrysostom Early Church Father and Doctor of the Church This excerpt from a homily by John Chrysostom on Paul's 2nd Letter to the Corinthians is used in the Roman Office of Readings for Sunday of the 17th week in ordinary time. [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100'...
[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...
CATECHETICAL LECTURES XIII-XXIII Including the 5 MYSTAGOGICAL CATECHESES St. Cyril of Jerusalem Early Church Father and Doctor of the Church [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]LECTURE XIII. ON THE WORDS, CRUCIFIED AND BURIED ISAIAH liii. 1, 7. Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord...
CATECHETICAL LECTURES I-XII With PROTOCATECHESIS St. Cyril of Jerusalem Early Church Father and Doctor of the Church PROCATECHESIS PROLOGUE TO THE CATECHETICAL LECTURES OF CYRIL, ARCHBISHOP OF JERUSALEM. [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps]. ALREADY there is an odour of blessedness upon you, O ye who are soon to be enlightened1:...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]hough many, we are one body, and members one of another, united by Christ in the bonds of love. Christ has made Jews and Gentiles one by breaking down the barrier that divided us and abolishing the law with its precepts...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']L[/dropcaps]et us take our stand on the tower, leaning with all our strength on Christ, the most solid rock, as it is written: He has set my feet on a rock, he has guided my steps. Thus firmly established, let us begin...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]here was only one mode of birth that was worthy of God, and that was to be born of a Virgin. Equally, who could come from a Virgin birth except God himself? The maker of mankind, if he was to...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]e read in the gospel that when the Lord was teaching his disciples and urged them to share in his passion by the mystery of eating his body, some said: This is a hard saying, and from that time they...
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...