From the treatise On the Prescription of Heretics by Tertullian, priest
Every family has to be traced back to its origins. That is why we can say that all these great churches constitute that one original Church of the apostles; for…
From a discourse by Saint Athanasius, bishop
The Word of God, incorporeal, incorruptible and immaterial, entered our world. Yet it was not as if he had been remote from it up to that time. For there…
From a sermon by Saint Leo the Great, pope
My dear brethren, there is no doubt that the Son of God took our human nature into so close a union with himself that one and the same Christ is…
From a book addressed to Monimus by Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe, bishop
The spiritual building up of the body of Christ is achieved through love. As Saint Peter says: Like living stones you are built into a spiritual house, to be…
From the dialogue On Divine Providence by Saint Catherine of Siena, virgin
Eternal God, eternal Trinity, you have made the blood of Christ so precious through his sharing in your divine nature. You are a mystery as deep as the sea; the…
From a sermon by Saint Augustine, bishop
I speak to you who have just been reborn in baptism, my little children in Christ, you who are the new offspring of the Church, gift of the Father, proof…
From the Jerusalem Catecheses
On the night he was betrayed our Lord Jesus Christ took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples and said:…
From the Jerusalem Catecheses
When we were baptized into Christ and clothed ourselves in him, we were transformed into the likeness of the Son of God. Having destined us to be his adopted sons,…
From the Jerusalem Catecheses
You were led down to the font of holy baptism just as Christ was taken down from the cross and placed in the tomb which is before your eyes….