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June 2017

June 02, 2017
The angels don’t need sermons  or readings to tell them God’s word, says St. Augustine. They have...
June 01, 2017
Do you really know, St. John Chrysostom asks, what an honor it is to be...

May 2017

May 31, 2017
Our Mass in our own parish church, says St. Athanasius, is already part of that great...
May 31, 2017
Brandon McGinley writes about faith, culture, and politics from his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His...
May 30, 2017
When a priest celebrates the Mass  on earth, he takes part in the worship of Heaven....
May 29, 2017
St. Augustine portrays Christ as a merchant buying and selling. But the deal he offers us...
May 28, 2017
All the angels, and the Lord of  angels, rejoice at a baptism,  says  St. John Chrysostom....
May 27, 2017
Often the Fathers use the angels as examples of  great but limited power, contrasting the...
May 26, 2017
When a book arrived in my mailbox about the Angelus prayer, I had to agree...
May 26, 2017
We hire a band for a wedding or a birthday, St. Augustine says, and everyone who...
May 25, 2017
With the Incarnation, says St. Cyril of Alexandria, the Church below is made one with the...
May 24, 2017
St. Augustine says that our real home is the Zion in Heaven, which is the...
May 23, 2017
The two greatest commandments, as Jesus taught us, sum up the whole of the Scriptures: love...
May 22, 2017
At the end of time, says St. Augustine, the angels will separate the wheat from the...
May 22, 2017
Jared Dees is the creator of the popular website The Religion Teacher, which provides practical resources...
May 21, 2017
We make up the Church below, says St. Augustine, and the angels make up the Church...
May 20, 2017
The historian Socrates Scholasticus relates the traditional story of how responsive singing began in the...
May 19, 2017
If you’re lazy now in doing good works, asks St. Clement of Rome, how will you...
May 18, 2017
Even when you work at earthly things, says St. Augustine, you’re a citizen of Heaven if...
May 17, 2017
What an honor for the human race! God reveals his most secret wisdom to the angels...
May 16, 2017
St. John Chrysostom tells us that the best way to draw back those who don’t come...
May 15, 2017
The  angels glorify God in Heaven, says  St. Gregory of  Nyssa,  and human beings were made...
May 14, 2017
In the Garden of Eden, says St. John of Damascus, Adam and Eve lived like angels—without...
May 13, 2017
God’s perfect knowledge is something no human could teach us, says St. Augustine. Angels couldn’t...
May 12, 2017
If  you love your brother, says St. Augustine, you know God—because  God is love. Love is...
May 12, 2017
Matt Fradd is the founder and executive director of The Porn Effect, a website dedicated...
May 11, 2017
The fall of the angels left a gap in the heavenly hierarchy, says St. Augustine, and...
May 10, 2017
If  we’re to be like the angels, who have no bodies, then what becomes of...
May 09, 2017
Answering the resurrection-denying Sadducees who tried to trip Jesus up with a tricky question about marriage...
May 08, 2017
Contemplation, says St. Augustine, is the highest part of  reason, which is the highest part of...
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