Origen's interpretation of the Parable of the Good Samaritan begins with a paraphrase of an unnamed patristic writer:
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If such a one now pays the penalty of his father’s wickedness, where is justice? Where is piety? Where is holiness? Where is Ezekiel, who cries: The man who has sinned is the man who must die and a son is not to suffer for the sins of his father...
Monasteries provide a wonderful opportunity as havens of prayer and hospitals for the soul in the midst of increasingly godless secularism in Western culture.
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It is better to fail to see what is with the mind and even so not draw back from the cross of Christ, than to see what is with the mind and scorn the cross of Christ.
In addition to being one of the public prayers of the Church and an important tool to study the Faith, the Liturgy of the Hours is a treasury of Christian poetry.
Liturgy isn't just any prayer! The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains that "liturgy is a constitute element of the holy and living Tradition." The liturgy, then, also is one of the ways we learn, transmit and live our faith.
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What is the Liturgy of the Hours? At its core, it is a regular recitation of the scriptures and in particular, the Psalms, which have always been the prayerbook of God’s chosen people.
The basis, and much of the content, of Ecclesiastical Latin is to be found in the vernacular speech of the Roman people of which but little survives in literature.
If we want to be spiritual, then, let us first of all live our lives. Let us not fear the responsibilities and the inevitable distractions of the work appointed for us by the will of God.
The three simplest words in the Latin language proclaim the great miracle of the empty tomb and Christ's defeat of death.
St. Thomas Aquinas's major works of theology remain widely read and discussed, but his homilies and academic sermons are neglected.
It is no light question, brethren, that meets us in the Gospel of the blessed John, when he says: “When Jesus had thus said, He was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.”
We are celebrating our Lord’s passion; it is the season for sighing and weeping, the season for making confession and supplication. Yet who among us is capable of shedding tears in proportion to such immense sorrow?
Only eight books remain in the Best of Benedict XVI tournament. Which will win?
This month the works of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI face off against each other to find the best.
Herbert McCabe, OP paired his love of St. Thomas Aquinas with a keen interest in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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St. Thomas' greatness, and incidentally his timeliness, consists precisely in the fact that a real “ism” cannot properly be attached to him.
The late Fr. Laurence Shapcote, OP translates doctrina as "knowledge." The newer edition of the Summa from the Aquinas Institute revises this translation from "knowledge" to "teaching." So what is doctrina and what does it mean?
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Adeste fideles læti triumphantes,
Venite, venite in Bethlehem.
Natum videte
Regem angelorum:
Venite adoremus
Dominum.
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Quotations on Christmas from St. Aelred of Rievaulx, St. Augustine, The Catholic Encyclopedia, and St. Gregory of Nyssa.
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