From a treatise Against Heresies by Saint Irenaeus, bishop and martyr
For this reason the Lord himself gave as the sign of our salvation, the one who was born of the Virgin, Emmanuel. It was the Lord himself who saved them, for of themselves…
From a letter to Diognetus
When our wickedness had reached its culmination, it became clear that retribution was at hand in the shape of suffering and death. The time came then for God to make…
From a letter by Saint Leo the Great, pope
For unless the new man, by being made in the likeness of sinful flesh, had taken on himself the nature of our first parents, unless he had stooped to be…
From a discourse On the Contemplation of God by William of Saint Thierry, abbot
Everything he did and everything he said on earth, even enduring the insults, the spitting, the buffeting—the cross and the grave—all of this was actually you speaking to us in…
From a sermon by Saint Augustine, bishop
The voice of one crying in the wilderness is the voice of one breaking the silence. Prepare the way for the Lord, he says, as though he were saying: “I speak out…
From a spiritual Canticle by Saint John of the Cross, priest
Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the…
From the book On Virginity by Saint Ambrose, bishop
Who but holy Church is to teach you how to hold Christ fast? Indeed, she has already taught you, if you only understood her words in Scripture: How short a…
From a report by Don Antonio Valeriano, a Native American author of the sixteenth century
Juan Diego set out on Tuesday, but he went around the hill and passed on the other side, toward the east, so as to arrive quickly in Mexico City and…
From a discourse on the psalms by Saint Augustine, bishop
God established a time for his promises and a time for their fulfillment. The time for promises was in the time of the prophets, until John the Baptist; from John…