Oct 29, 2019
"Do not abandon the commandments of the Lord, but keep what you have received, without adding or subtracting."
The Didache is one of the most important sources from the age of the Apostolic Fathers; so instrumental, in fact, that some of the early Fathers considered it to be a part of the New Testament.
Effectively the...
Oct 25, 2019
"God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another."
One of the prayers most commonly associated with St. John Henry Newman comes directly from this excerpt of St. Newman’s Meditations and Devotions, entitled Hope in God, Creator. It was written...
Oct 22, 2019
"Artists are constantly in search of the hidden meaning of things, and their torment is to succeed in expressing the world of the ineffable. How then can we fail to see what a great source of inspiration is offered by that kind of homeland of the soul that is religion?"
Today, in honor of the feast of St. John Paul II,...
Oct 17, 2019
The Letter to the Romans is perhaps the most well-known of St. Ignatius' letters, and the most striking. In it, St. Ignatius implores the Church at Rome not to intervene in his impending execution.
Translation courtesy of Catholic University of America Press:
Oct 13, 2019
“It requires nothing great, nothing heroic, nothing saint-like... it requires nothing more than faith, a single purpose, an honest heart, and a distinct utterance.“
This sermon was first preached at the opening of the Birmingham Oratory in 1849. It is found in one of Newman’s earliest publications after his...