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2017-12-12T21:59:55-05:00

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Train your tongue to serve righteousness; Church Fathers: Day 142

Last updated on: December 12, 2017 at 9:59 pm By Pete Socks

What we say can be as important as what we do. St. John Chrysostom reminds us that it’s up to us to decide whether we’ll use our tongues for good or for evil. First of all, we should train our tongues to be ministers of the grace of the Spirit, expelling from our mouths all hostility and ill will, and the habit of using obscenities. We have the power to make each part of our bodies a tool of evil... Read more

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Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

Saint John Chrysostom

2017-12-10T07:22:10-05:00

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Be Christian in your conversation; Church Fathers: Day 141

Last updated on: December 10, 2017 at 7:22 am By Pete Socks

The things we say even in casual conversation can have profound effects on the people we say them to. St. Ambrose advises us always to keep our conversation within the limits of friendly good taste, so that we never give anyone an occasion of sin. Speech is divided into two kinds: first, as it is used in friendly conversation, and then in the treatment and discussion of matters of faith and justice. In either case we must take care that... Read more

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2019-01-22T15:40:50-05:00

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Off the Shelf 050 with Fr Dwight Longenecker – Mystery of the Magi

Last updated on: January 22, 2019 at 3:40 pm By Pete Socks

Father Dwight Longenecker was raised an Evangelical and graduated from Bob Jones University. While there he became an Anglican and after graduation went to Oxford to train as an Anglican priest. After serving for ten years as an Anglican priest he realized he and the Anglican faith were as he calls in “on divergent paths” so in 1995 he converted to the Catholic faith with his wife and family. Eventually he returned to the United States to be ordained as... Read more

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2017-12-10T07:08:47-05:00

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Live and talk like a Christian; Church Fathers: Day 140

Last updated on: December 10, 2017 at 7:08 am By Pete Socks

In his letter “On the Perfection of the Life of Solitaries,” St. Basil gives advice that applies not just to monks and nuns, but to every Christian. No matter what we do, it should be obvious that we’re Christians and that we take our commitment seriously. Inspired Scripture tells us many things that everyone who is eager to please God ought to do. But, for right now, I think I need only remind you of what I’ve learned from Scripture... Read more

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2017-12-10T06:51:43-05:00

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Hear the silence of Jesus; Church Fathers: Day 139

Last updated on: December 10, 2017 at 6:51 am By Pete Socks

Jesus left us many sayings, commandments, and sermons. But he also taught us by doing. St. Ignatius of Antioch tells us that it’s better to be silent and practice what we preach than to be a teacher who doesn’t act. It’s better to be silent and be a Christian, than to talk and not be a Christian. It’s good to teach—if the teacher also acts. Then there is one Teacher, who spoke, and it was done. Even those things he... Read more

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Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

Saint Ignatius of Antioch

2017-12-07T20:16:25-05:00

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Live a life worthy of your baptism; Church Fathers: Day 138

Last updated on: December 7, 2017 at 8:16 pm By Pete Socks

Can people tell that you’re a Christian? St. John Chrysostom says we should live lives that always remind people of what we believe—not to show off, but because our example should be leading others to Christ. I see many living after their baptism more carelessly than the uninitiated, with nothing special to distinguish them in their way of life. Thus neither in the market nor in the church can you tell quickly who is a believer and who is an... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

Saint John Chrysostom

2017-12-07T20:06:48-05:00

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God’s mercy works through us; Church Fathers: Day 137

Last updated on: December 7, 2017 at 8:06 pm By Pete Socks

Babies are born into the world helpless, completely dependent on the people who take care of them. St. Augustine, beginning the story of his own life, points out how God has ordered everything so that meeting the infant’s needs also meets the needs of the caretakers. What can I say, Lord my God, except that I don’t know how I came into this—well, should I call it a dying life, or a living death? But I have heard from my... Read more

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2017-12-07T09:59:27-05:00

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Don’t blame God for what bad people do; Church Fathers: Day 136

Last updated on: December 7, 2017 at 9:59 am By Pete Socks

God gave us free will, and we often misuse it. When Christians are persecuted, says St. Clement of Alexandria, it’s not God who makes it happen: every judge who condemns them has a free will and is using it wrongly. But if God cares for you, they say, then why are you persecuted and put to death? Did God make that happen? No, we don’t suppose that the Lord wants disasters to happen to us, but that he foretold prophetically... Read more

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Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

Saint Clement of Alexandria

2017-12-06T10:18:20-05:00

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A better understanding of the Immaculate Conception of Mary

Last updated on: December 6, 2017 at 10:18 am By Pete Socks

Many Catholics today misunderstand the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Catholics celebrate this feast day each year of December 8. Many people believe that the Immaculate Conception refers to the conception of Christ through the working of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary. Though that is one of the great gifts God gave to humanity it is not the one he gave in this instance. Catholic Doctrine of Mary The Immaculate Conception refers... Read more

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2017-12-06T07:00:59-05:00

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See the big picture; Church Fathers: Day 135

Last updated on: December 6, 2017 at 7:00 am By Pete Socks

In the natural world, things grow, die, and decay. Is God’s creation imperfect, then? No, says St. Augustine: every created thing has its place in God’s great plan, and even its decay serves the larger purpose. All natures that exist have a genus and species of their own, and a kind of internal harmony, and because of that they are certainly good. And when they are in the places assigned to them in the order of nature, they preserve the... Read more

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