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January 2017

January 19, 2017

“Increased in wisdom and stature”; Angels: Day 182

What does it mean when Luke says that the child Jesus “increased in wisdom and stature”?...

January 19, 2017

CBB Review – Help for Suffering Humanity: Mary Help of Christians

They say good things come in small packages. I’d like to add that powerful books...

January 18, 2017

Angels join us in Christmas praise; Angels: Day 181

In a hymn for the Christmas vigil, St. Ephrem the Syrian expresses his astonishment that...

January 18, 2017

CBB Review – Will Wilder: The Relic of the Perilous Falls

Last March well-known EWTN host Raymond Arroyo released a book that some, including myself, were...

January 17, 2017

The Lord of hosts is with us; Angels: Day 180

As the psalm says, not just an angel, not just a host of angels, but...

January 16, 2017

A little child, commander of angels; Angels: Day 179

St. Ephrem the Syrian meditates on what it meant for the Lord of all to...

January 16, 2017

CBB Interview with Gina Loehr

Gina Loehr is a popular author and inspirational speaker, a theologian and the mother of...

January 15, 2017

Christ gives us the peace of the angels; Angels: Day 178

Christ, says St. Cyril of Alexandria, takes away the sin that came between us and the...

January 14, 2017

The best news ever; Angels: Day 177

The birth of Christ, says St. John Chrysostom, is simply the best news ever. In an...

January 13, 2017

Angels were the first to preach Christ; Angels: Day 176

When a priest at your parish church preaches Christ, says St. Cyril of Alexandria, he...

January 13, 2017

CBB Giveaway: The Church is Our Mother AND Icons, The Essential Collection

This week we have an awesome TWO title giveaway! One lucky winner will receive a copy...

January 12, 2017

Praised by angels, born in poverty; Angels: Day 175

Although as God he was without beginning, says St. Gregory the Wonder-Worker, Christ’s life on...

January 12, 2017

CBB Review: Icons, The Essential Collection

Some of the most beautiful pieces of art are not meant to be art at...

January 11, 2017

Why did the angel wait to tell Joseph?; Angels: Day 174

St. John Chrysostom answers an obvious question: why didn’t the angel tell Joseph about the coming birth...

January 11, 2017

CBB Review – The Church is Our Mother

Review by Michele Craig “A mother journeys with her children all the way through their...

January 10, 2017

Hail O favored one; Angels: Day 173

If we imitate the virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary, says St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, then...

January 09, 2017

The perplexity of Gabriel; Angels: Day 172

We find it easy to imagine how amazed Mary was by the Annunciation. But what was Gabriel...

January 08, 2017

We add our praise to Gabriel’s; Angels: Day 171

St. Gregory the Wonder-Worker invites us to join our voices to the angel Gabriel’s. When...

January 07, 2017

Undoing Eve’s damage; Angels: Day 170

The Annunciation, says St. Irenaeus, is more than good news. In her obedience to the word...

January 06, 2017

Mary alone saw the glory of the archangel; Angels: Day 169

Mary, the Blessed Virgin, had a privilege no one else in history has ever had, says...

January 06, 2017

CBB Giveaway: Three Kings Ten Mysteries and The Love That Made Mother Teresa

This week we have an awesome TWO title giveaway! One lucky winner will receive a copy...

January 05, 2017

Angels saw the Son when we did; Angels: Day 168

The angels, says St. John Chrysostom, did not know the mystery of the Son of God...

January 05, 2017

CBB Review: Three Kings, Ten Mysteries

Grzegorz Gorny reveals the hidden story behind the Epiphany in his new book Three Kings,...

January 04, 2017

The angels learned the gospel along with us; Angels: Day 167

Introducing the Gospel of John to his flock, St. John Chrysostom tells them they are about...

January 04, 2017

CBB Review: The Love That Made Mother Teresa

Review by Julie Abell I remember the moment I heard about Mother Teresa dying. I...

January 03, 2017

The angels are evangelists too; Angels: Day 166

Origen suggests that, if we call the Gospel writers evangelists (a Greek word that means “messengers...

January 02, 2017

God passed the angels to become one of use; Angels: Day 165

Why did it take the whole Old Testament to prepare humanity for Christ? Simply because...

January 02, 2017

CBB Interview with Sonja Corbitt

Sonja erupted on the scene early last spring with her explosive book, Unleashed, where she...

January 01, 2017

Christ was made man, not angel; Angels: Day 164

St. Gregory the Great says that Christ was made man because he came to save us,...

December 2016

December 31, 2016

Angels will proclaim the gospels to the end; Angels: Day 163

In Origen’s time, some heretical sects said that the God of the Old Testament was not the...

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