The text below is taken from a sermon by St. Maximus of Turin (born 280 AD) Christ is risen! He has burst open the gates of hell and let the dead go free; he has renewed the earth through the members of his Church now born again in baptism, and...
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The text below is taken from a commentary on the Letter to the Romans by St. Cyril of Alexandria (378-444 AD) Though many, we are one body, and members one of another, united by Christ in the bonds of love. Christ has made Jews and Gentiles one by breaking...
The Daily Bread, 8th May, 2020: The outstretched, wounded hand. Readings: Acts 13:26-33; Psalm 2:6-11; John 14:1-6 During this period of Eastertide, in the year 1978, I received a gift from a friend of my own personal Lectionary (the book that has all the readings for Mass all the...
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Yesterday afternoon, Pope Francis declared a 19 year-old Italian from Brindisi to be Venerable. That is, the Vatican has, after detailed and prolonged study, declared that Matteo lived his short life with heroic virtues. One version of his story can be read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Farina For our young people, it’s...
The text below is taken from the Treatise on the Trinity by St. Hilary of Poitiers (315-368, AD) and discusses the unity of the faithful in God through the incarnation of the Word and the sacrament of the Eucharist. If the Word has truly been made flesh and we in...
The Daily Bread, 5th May 2020: At the boxing ring! Readings: Acts 11:19-26; Psalm 86(87); John 10:22-30 One of my favourite persons appears in today’s first reading from the Acts of the Apostles: Saint Barnabas. He became a “second generation” apostle after he converted to the faith, possibly even on...
