LETTER DOMINICAE CENAE OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II TO ALL THE BISHOPS OF THE CHURCH ON THE MYSTERY AND WORSHIP OF THE EUCHARIST [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']M[/dropcaps]y venerable and dear brothers, 1. Again this year, for Holy Thursday, I am writing a letter to all of you. This letter...
APOSTOLIC LETTER MULIERIS DIGNITATEM OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF ON THE DIGNITY AND VOCATION OF WOMEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE MARIAN YEAR JOHN PAUL II Venerable Brothers and dear Sons and Daughters, Health and the Apostolic Blessing. I INTRODUCTION [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps] sign of the times 1. THE DIGNITY AND THE VOCATION OF WOMEN - a...
ENCYCLICAL EPISTLE SLAVORUM APOSTOLI OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF TO THE BISHOPS, PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS FAMILIES AND TO ALL THE CHRISTIAN FAITHFUL IN COMMEMORATION OF THE ELEVENTH CENTENARY OF THE EVANGELIZING WORK OF SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS JOHN PAUL II [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps] INTRODUCTION 1. THE APOSTLES OF THE SLAVS, Saints Cyril and Methodius, are remembered...
Christian Wisdom-Pope John Paul II Sapientia Christiana APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION SAPIENTIA CHRISTIANA OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF POPE JOHN PAUL II ON ECCLESIASTICAL UNIVERSITIES AND FACULTIES JOHN PAUL, BISHOP SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD FOR PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE FOREWORD I [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]hristian wisdom, which the Church teaches by divine authority, continuously inspires the...
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION CATECHESI TRADENDAE OF POPE JOHN PAUL II ON CATECHESIS IN OUR TIME [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]NTRODUCTION Christ's Final Command 1. The Church has always considered catechesis one of her primary tasks, for, before Christ ascended to His Father after His resurrection, He gave the apostles a final command...
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...
Here St. Fulgentius of Ruspe shows how all the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament were merely signs foreshadowing the ultimate sacrifice, the only sacrifice that could take away all sin and reconcile the human race with God, the self-offering of the Lord Jesus Christ...
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...