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2017-10-10T05:59:04-05:00

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Feel the power of faith; Church Fathers: Day 078

Last updated on: October 10, 2017 at 5:59 am By Pete Socks

Running at a gallop through salvation history, Aphrahat tells us that all the great things we read about in the Bible were accomplished by faith. Let us draw near then, dear friends, to faith, since its powers are so many. For faith raised Enoch up to the heavens and conquered the Flood. It caused the barren to bring forth. It delivered from the sword. It raised up from the pit. It enriched the poor. It released the captives. It delivered... Read more

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Aphrahat

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

2019-01-22T15:39:16-05:00

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Off the Shelf 041 with Joseph Pearce – Heroes of the Catholic Reformation

Last updated on: January 22, 2019 at 3:39 pm By Pete Socks

Joseph Pearce is a Senior Contributor of The Imaginative Conservative. He is Senior Editor at the Augustine Institute, and Tolkien & Lewis Chair in Literary Studies at Holy Apostles College & Seminary. He is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, and executive director of Catholic Courses. His books include The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, C. S. Lewis and The Catholic Church, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, and... Read more

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Heroes of the Catholic Reformation

2017-10-05T19:50:20-05:00

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Don’t doubt—just pray; Church Fathers: Day 077

Last updated on: October 5, 2017 at 7:50 pm By Pete Socks

How can I pray to God when I’m such a miserable sinner? Don’t think like that, the visionary Hermas is told. If you get rid of your doubt and just pray, the Lord will answer your prayer. Get rid of all your doubt, and don’t hesitate to ask of the Lord. Don’t say to yourself, “How can I ask of the Lord and receive from him, when I’ve sinned so much against him?” Don’t think that way. With all your... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Hermas

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

2017-10-05T19:37:22-05:00

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Everything takes faith; Church Fathers: Day 076

Last updated on: October 5, 2017 at 7:37 pm By Pete Socks

St. Cyril of Jerusalem tells us that faith is by no means an exclusively Christian idea. It takes as much faith to plant a garden as it does to accept the Christian religion. We Christians are not the only ones for whom faith is very important. Everything that is accomplished in the world, even by those outside the Church, is accomplished by faith. By faith the laws of marriage bring together those who lived as strangers: because of the faith... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem

2017-10-05T19:32:33-05:00

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Cooperation is a law of nature; Church Fathers: Day 075

Last updated on: October 5, 2017 at 7:32 pm By Pete Socks

Working for the common good is a law implanted in our very nature, says St. Ambrose. The example of our own bodies shows that doing anything to injure someone else injures the whole, and therefore eventually ourselves. Think, human, where your very name comes from—from the humus, the earth, which takes nothing from any one, but gives freely to all, and supplies varied produce for the use of all living things. Thus humanity is called a particular and innate virtue... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina. Saint Benedict Press

Saint Ambrose

2017-10-05T19:00:42-05:00

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Stay on course; Church Fathers: Day 074

Last updated on: October 5, 2017 at 7:00 pm By Pete Socks

If you flit from one activity to the next, the abbot Nesteros tells St. John Cassian, you’ll never get anything done. You can’t do everything well, so it’s important to decide what your calling is and stick to that. Those who are not yet settled in the occupation they have taken up, when they hear some occupations praised for different interests and virtues, are often so excited by the praise of them that they try to imitate their method immediately:... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

Saint John Cassian

2017-10-01T06:23:10-05:00

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Find the best use of your talents; Church Fathers: Day 073

Last updated on: October 1, 2017 at 6:23 am By Pete Socks

Palladius of Galatia tells the story of a man who became a monk late in life. He couldn’t learn a new craft, and he couldn’t write well enough to be a scribe. But he found a way to be not only useful to the other monks, but essential. A man named Apollonius, a merchant, who had renounced the world and come to live on Mount Nitria, was unable because of his advanced years either to learn a craft or work... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Palladius

Saint Benedict Press

2017-10-01T06:14:02-05:00

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Use the gifts God gave you rightly; Church Fathers: Day 072

Last updated on: October 1, 2017 at 6:14 am By Pete Socks

God gave you wonderful tools and abilities, says St. John Chrysostom. But it’s up to you to use them the way God meant them to be used. Look: you were given an eye, so that you could look at the creation and glorify the Master. But if you do not use the eye well, it becomes a servant of adultery to you. You were given a tongue, so that you could speak well, so that you could praise the Creator.... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

Saint John Chrysostom

2017-10-01T06:03:54-05:00

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Foreknowledge doesn’t cancel free will, Church Fathers: Day 071

Last updated on: October 1, 2017 at 6:03 am By Pete Socks

If God knows in advance what you will do, does that mean God is the cause of your sins? No, says Origen. Just because God knows the choices you will make doesn’t mean he causes you to make them. Suppose you get information from a person in no way responsible for the events. If you hear that certain things have happened or will happen to certain individuals, and you do not bear in mind that your informant as to the... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Origen

Saint Benedict Press

2017-09-30T19:01:56-05:00

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Denying free will proves that there is free will; Church Fathers: Day 070

Last updated on: September 30, 2017 at 7:01 pm By Pete Socks

We Christians know that we have free will: that we can choose between good and evil. Want proof, asks St. Ephrem the Syrian? The very denial of free will proves it exists. If anyone asks what this “will” is, we must tell him the real truth about it: that it is the power of free choice. So if anyone asks, “What is this will? For it is only one thing, but part of it is good and part of it... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

Saint Ephrem

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