The text below is from a sermon of St. Peter Chrysologus (406-450 AD). I appeal to you by the mercy of God. This appeal is made by Paul, or rather, it is made by God through Paul, because of God’s desire to be loved rather than feared, to be a...
The Daily Bread, 4th May 2020: Love’s repetitions Readings: Acts 11:1-18; Psalm 41(42):2-3,42:3-4; John 10:11-18 I think I counted some six times that Jesus says in today’s Gospel, “I lay down my life.” As we know, he did not lay down his life six times, but only once! Once...
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The text below is from a treatise on the Holy Spirit by St. Basil the Great (330-379 AD) For this cause the Lord, who gives us our life, gave us the covenant of baptism, containing a type of life and death, for the water fulfils the image of death, and...
The Spirituality of Totus Tuus
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE 2020 WORLD DAY OF VOCATIONS (3 May 2020) Words of Vocation Dear Brothers and Sisters, On 4 August last year, the 160th anniversary of the death of the Curé of Ars, I chose to write a letter to all...
The test below is taken from a homily on the Gospels by St. Gregory the Great, Pope (540-604, AD) I am the good shepherd. I know my own – by which I mean, I love them – and my own know me. In plain words: those who love me are willing to...
Readings: Acts 2:14,36-41; Psalm 22(23); 1 Peter 2:20-25; John 10:1-10 “I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.” These most consoling words of Jesus are mirrored in today’s Psalm, “in the Lord’s own house shall I dwell for ever and ever.” In this...
The text below is taken from a discourse by Saint Athanasius, the intrepid and persecuted defender of the divinity of Christ (296-373 AD), who participated in the Council of Nicea (325 AD). Athanasius defended the Church from Arianism, which denied the divinity of Christ because it could not countenance the notion that...
The Daily Bread, 1st May, 2020: Transforming Light Readings: Acts 9:1-20; Psalm 116; John 6:52-59 Today’s first reading gives us one of the two accounts of St. Paul’s conversion. It’s a rather dramatic conversion: a light from heaven, the voice of Jesus, the accusation of Jesus against Saul, the...
