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December 2016

December 07, 2016

Lord, who is like you?; Angels: Day 139

Don’t listen to anyone who tells you to worship idols, or nature, or even angels, says St....

December 07, 2016

CBB Review: From Humdrum to Holy

Review by Julie Abell With all the books I have been reading in order to...

December 06, 2016

Angels don’t stand between us and Christ; Angels: Day 138

Like many Christian interpreters, St. Augustine sees Psalm 24 as a description of Christ’s triumphal ascent...

December 05, 2016

Against Principalities and Powers; Angels: Day 137

As long as we’re sinners, says St. Augustine, we’re slaves to the devil and his angels....

December 04, 2016

Let false hope perish; Angels: Day 136

Continuing his meditation on Job’s cursing the day he was born and the night he was...

December 03, 2016

Keep the creed all your life; Angels: Day 135

St. Cyril of Jerusalem advises his students to memorize the creed word for word, and to...

December 02, 2016

Judge the message, not the messenger; Angels: Day 134

St. Clement of Alexandria tells us that even the devil can speak the truth when it...

December 02, 2016

CBB Giveaway: Prayer in the Catholic Tradition and The Cajun Storm

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

December 01, 2016

Helping a heretic escape false angels; Angels: Day 133

When asked for advice on dealing with a heretic who claimed to have revelations from angels,...

December 01, 2016

CBB Review – The Cajun Storm: God’s Servant First

James (Jay) Toups brings to the forefront the struggles Louisiana faced in the days and...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Angels are bound to the Gospel: Angels: Day 132

The Donatists were a schismatic sect that called itself the only true Church. St. Augustine warns...

November 30, 2016

CBB Review: Prayer in the Catholic Tradition

Review by Michele Craig In his book Prayer in the Catholic Tradition: A Handbook of...

November 29, 2016

Don’t listen even to an angel preaching heresy; Angels: Day 131

St. Paul warned the Galatians not to listen even to an angel from Heaven if...

November 28, 2016

Angels hate chastising us; Angels: Day 130

The angels are sometimes ministers of God’s just chastisement. But they don’t like it, St. Ambrose...

November 27, 2016

Being punished is not an evil; Angels: Day 129

Are the angels evil when they punish sinners? No, says Dionysius the Areopagite: what is evil...

November 26, 2016

Angels are avenging powers; Angels: Day 128

Although the good angels want nothing more than our salvation, sometimes they must be the instruments...

November 25, 2016

CBB News….a new venture?

It has been four years since I have launched The Catholic Book Blogger. A lot...

November 25, 2016

Pursued by the angel of the Lord; Angels: Day 127

A terrifying image from Psalm 35 provokes St. Augustine to meditate on how God punishes. When...

November 24, 2016

The will of God is the cause of everything; Angels: Day 126

St. Augustine argues that the will of God is ultimately the cause of everything that happens...

November 23, 2016

Even magic come’s from God’s will; Angels: Day 125

The magicians of Pharaoh, says St. Augustine, were able to duplicate some of the plagues by...

November 22, 2016

Demons are weapons against the devil; Angels: Day 124

Even when the evil angels turn their strength against us, says St. Augustine, they’re actually weapons...

November 21, 2016

Even the evil angels are God’s instruments; Angels: Day 123

God uses the evil angels as his instruments for correcting us, says St. Augustine. The purpose...

November 20, 2016

The devil’s power to hurt come’s from God; Angels: Day 122

The devil wills evil, says St. Augustine, but God’s will is always done even through...

November 20, 2016

CBB Review – Liturgy and Personality

If you have never heard the name Dietrich von Hildebrand or had the opportunity to...

November 19, 2016

Even Satan’s sin accomplished God’s will; Angels: Day 121

God’s plan is so well thought out that even the sinful free will of Satan...

November 18, 2016

The world belongs to Christ, not Satan; Angels: Day 120

Satan tempted Christ by promising to give him all the kingdoms of the world. But those...

November 18, 2016

CBB Giveaway: Praying the Rosary for Spiritual Warfare and Sacred Reading 2017

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

November 17, 2016

Wrath against the devil is mercy on sinners; Angels: Day 119

Why does the Psalmist ask God to “arise in your anger”? St. Augustine suggests that...

November 17, 2016

CBB Review – Praying the Rosary for Spiritual Warfare

Many of us may have a sense of something not being quite right with the...

November 16, 2016

God’s light takes in the darkness; Angels: Day 118

Meditating on the first appearance of Satan in Job, St. Gregory the Great looks at the...

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