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October 2017

October 26, 2017
When it comes to the church fathers and the early church, in general, I, like...
October 26, 2017
Writing to convert Manichean heretics, St. Augustine admits that he can’t make them understand Catholic...
October 25, 2017
Like the Israelites, we are wandering in the desert as a training for the Promised...
October 24, 2017
Virtue, says St. Augustine, is simply love in action. All the named virtues are different...
October 23, 2017
The mind that strays from God is miserable, says St. Augustine. Only love can lead...
October 23, 2017
  Brian Kennelly is the author of two novels, Two Statues and To the Heights,...
October 22, 2017
A little weed, says St. Cyril of Jerusalem, can eventually break a rock apart with...
October 21, 2017
St. John Cassian recalls the wise words of an Egyptian abbot named Moses. You can’t...
October 20, 2017
So you’ve proved that someone else’s opinion is wrong. Well, that doesn’t mean you’re right,...
October 19, 2017
Do any of the pagan professors of rhetoric or grammar really make their stu­dents happy?...
October 18, 2017
St. Augustine tells us that we can be wrong about some things without causing any...
October 17, 2017
Mike Aquilina is the award-winning author of more than fifty books on Catholic history, doctrine,...
October 17, 2017
Philoxenus, an ancient Syriac writer, tells us that the love of truth is a consum­ing...
October 16, 2017
The abbot Nesteros tells St. John Cassian that he needs to learn practice before he...
October 15, 2017
Just as in our own time, educated people in the time of St. Augustine loved...
October 14, 2017
There is only one way to salvation, says St. Irenaeus, but there are many roads...
October 13, 2017
Before dawn after the Sabbath, Mary Magdalene came and found Jesus’ tomb empty; then she...
October 12, 2017
Many are familiar with the Total Consecration method started by St. Louis de Montfort. He...
October 12, 2017
In a dialogue with St. Gregory the Great, Peter the deacon seems to prefer to...
October 11, 2017
A mighty building, says Aphrahat, depends on its foundation stones. If we build the structure...
October 10, 2017
Running at a gallop through salvation history, Aphrahat tells us that all the great things...
October 09, 2017
Joseph Pearce is a Senior Contributor of The Imaginative Conservative. He is Senior Editor at...
October 09, 2017
How can I pray to God when I’m such a miserable sinner? Don’t think like...
October 08, 2017
St. Cyril of Jerusalem tells us that faith is by no means an exclusively Chris­tian...
October 07, 2017
Working for the common good is a law implanted in our very nature, says St....
October 06, 2017
If you flit from one activity to the next, the abbot Nesteros tells St. John...
October 05, 2017
Palladius of Galatia tells the story of a man who became a monk late in...
October 04, 2017
God gave you wonderful tools and abilities, says St. John Chrysostom. But it’s up to...
October 03, 2017
If God knows in advance what you will do, does that mean God is the...
October 02, 2017
We Christians know that we have free will: that we can choose between good and...
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