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December 2017

December 13, 2017
What we say can be as important as what we do. St. John Chrysostom reminds...
December 12, 2017
The things we say even in casual conversation can have profound effects on the people...
December 11, 2017
Father Dwight Longenecker was raised an Evangelical and graduated from Bob Jones University. While there...
December 11, 2017
In his letter “On the Perfection of the Life of Solitaries,” St. Basil gives advice...
December 10, 2017
Jesus left us many sayings, commandments, and sermons. But he also taught us by doing....
December 09, 2017
Can people tell that you’re a Christian? St. John Chrysostom says we should live lives...
December 08, 2017
Babies are born into the world helpless, completely dependent on the people who take care...
December 07, 2017
God gave us free will, and we often misuse it. When Christians are persecuted, says...
December 06, 2017
Many Catholics today misunderstand the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
December 06, 2017
In the natural world, things grow, die, and decay. Is God’s creation imperfect, then? No,...
December 05, 2017
St. Clement of Rome tells us that we’re all different for a reason. Not everyone...
December 04, 2017
God is always beyond the grasp of our reason, as St. Hilary of Poitiers tells...
December 04, 2017
Phillip Campbell holds a BA in European History from Ave Maria University and a certificate...
December 03, 2017
Writing to a widowed noblewoman, Theodoret tells her that reason will be a consolation in...
December 02, 2017
This isn’t the sort of thing we usually hear at a funeral these days, but...
December 01, 2017
To a congregation that had lost its pastor, St. Basil sends his condolences. Grief is...

November 2017

November 30, 2017
Are you feeling gloomy? That’s good if it leads you to repent your sins, says...
November 29, 2017
When we work, says St. Basil, we do it for the sake of the good...
November 28, 2017
Father Terry P. Ehrman, CSC is the assistant director for life science research and outreach...
November 28, 2017
When Jesus was transfigured, says St. Gregory the Great, Peter wanted to live in that...
November 26, 2017
God knows more than we do, and sometimes hard times may do us as much...
November 26, 2017
Making a humorous but still pointed apology for a long sermon, St. Basil tells his...
November 25, 2017
St. Basil points to the bees as an example to all Christians. They work indus­triously...
November 24, 2017
The rich have many problems, says Tatian, and the poor have few. Be satisfied with...
November 23, 2017
It’s easy to have more than enough to get by, says St. Ambrose. But lust...
November 22, 2017
Fish follow the order of nature, says St. Basil, and no one has to tell...
November 21, 2017
Marge Fenelon is a Catholic wife, mother, award-winning author and journalist, blogger, and speaker. She’s...
November 21, 2017
Rome came very close to being destroyed by Attila the Hun, but Pope St. Leo...
November 20, 2017
We can’t ever completely comprehend the nature of God, says St. Cyril of Jerusalem. But...
November 19, 2017
You can’t be a Christian and a grump at the same time, the visionary Hermas...
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