My opinion is that it is a very extraordinary thing for anyone to be upset by such a topic. Why should anyone be shattered by the thought of hell? It is not compulsory for anyone to go there. Those who do, do so by their own choice, and against the will of God, and theyContinue reading “Why should anyone be shattered by the thought of hell?”
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St. Justin Martyr on the Eucharist
We call this food Eucharist, and no one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true and who has been washed in the washing which is for the remission of sins and for regeneration and is thereby living as Christ enjoined. For not as common bread norContinue reading “St. Justin Martyr on the Eucharist”
One is the Table
One is the table that is prepared for rich and poor alike. And though a person may be rich, yet to this table the rich can give nothing. And should another be poor, this one shall have no less honor because of poverty in regard to the things which here belong to all. For thisContinue reading “One is the Table”
I wasted in iniquities the riches that Thou gavest me.
When I disobeyed in ignorance Thy fatherly glory,I wasted in iniquities the riches that Thou gavest me.Wherefore, I cry to Thee with the voice of the prodigal son, saying,I have sinned before Thee, O compassionate Father,Receive me repentant, and make me as one of Thy hired servants. Kontakion for Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Why am I now all alone?
I have drunk and I have diced, gold pieces I gave with delightto harlots with eyes the darkness of the night.I have done what I wanted, acted out my desires,I am now at the end of what I began.Where are my friends that I drank with?Why am I now all alone? from The Prodigal Son, BenjaminContinue reading “Why am I now all alone?”
Where this mercy is not, there is also no faith.
Where this mercy is not, there is also no faith. For if your heart is in the state of faith that you know your God has revealed himself to you to be so good and merciful, without thy merit, and purely gratuitously, while you were still his enemy and a child of eternal wrath; ifContinue reading “Where this mercy is not, there is also no faith.”
Tertullian on Marriage
How shall we ever be able adequately to describe the happiness of that marriage which the Church arranges, the Sacrifice strengthens, upon which the blessing sets a seal, at which angels are present as witnesses, and to which the Father gives His consent? For not even on earth do children marry properly and legally withoutContinue reading “Tertullian on Marriage”
St. Gregory of Nyssa on the Miraculous Catch of Fish
When Christ commanded to let down the nets, the multitude of the fishes taken was just as great as the Lord of the sea and land willed. For the voice of the Word is the voice of power, at whose bidding at the beginning of the world light and the other creatures came forth. AtContinue reading “St. Gregory of Nyssa on the Miraculous Catch of Fish”
Dr. Luther on the Purpose of the Decalogue
The cause and need of this commandment is that God well knows that the world is evil, and that this life has much unhappiness; therefore He has placed this and the other commandments between the good and the evil. Now, as there are many assaults upon all commandments, so it happens also in this commandmentContinue reading “Dr. Luther on the Purpose of the Decalogue”
I nourish myself with a life sacrificed for me.
When I nourish myself, I am always eating a being which I have killed or which I have at least prevented from living. I eat an animal which has been killed for me, my life being preferred to its life. I eat something which would have engendered life or sustained the life of another livingContinue reading “I nourish myself with a life sacrificed for me.”
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