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Church Rises Like the Dawn – Gregory the Great

Since dawn goes from darkness into light, the Church should be called “dawn” or “first light” says Gregory the Great...

01 June, 2021 / 0 Comments

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The Manifold Law of the Lord is summed up in Love – Gregory the Great

These words from Gregory the Great's Moral Reflections on Job extols how the law of the Lord is manifold in that it includes all the virtues which find their perfection in love. Here he especially comments on Paul's ode to love in I Corinthians 13. How...

27 May, 2021 / 0 Comments

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Simplicity of the Dove, Craftiness of the Serpent – Gregory the Great

Gregory the Great explains the nature of true simplicity making use of the example of Job as well as the Gospel saying of Jesus "Be cunning as serpents and yet as harmless as doves." For him simplicity must be accompanied by the fire...

24 May, 2021 / 0 Comments

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Mystery of Mercy – Gregory the Great

The mystery of mercy revealed in the sufferings of Christ and our obligation to make that extraordinary mercy known to everyone. Our response must be not only prayer, but evangelization. The connection between the Eucharist in which which receive the blood of Christ...

24 May, 2021 / 0 Comments

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Job and Life’s Trials – Gregory the Great

Gregory the Great here discusses the role of affliction, pain, suffering and trials in our life with God which is the great problem of the book of Job.....

21 May, 2021 / 0 Comments

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Moses and Christ – John Chrysostom

Here John Chrysostom contrasts the Red Sea with baptism, Moses with Christ, showing us that while Old Testament realities point forward to the events of the New Covenant, they cannot begin to equal them. ...

28 February, 2021 / 0 Comments

Conversion of the Angles – Gregory the Great

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']G[/dropcaps]lory to God in the highest and peace to his people on earth,because the grain of wheat has fallen into the earth and has died. Christ has died in order to reign in heaven. Not only that: by his death...

03 February, 2021 / 0 Comments