Sublime

For him and in him, you are to care for your enemies as if they were friends, and pray for them so that they too may know him and love him. Never desire to be singled out for love or praise, for this is the privilege of God alone who has no equal.

It is no small matter to live in a monastery, or in a congregation, without expressing complaints, and to persevere faithfully until death (see Mt 10:22 and Rev 2:10).

Epictetus with philosophers like Socrates and Diogenes, who were inspirations to the later Stoics. We turn to focus on Zeno, Cleanthes and Chrysippus as they formulated the core ideas of their school. We also believe an under-appreciated figure, Musonius Rufus, deserves focused attention for his story, given his role in Epictetus’s introduction to

The great tragedy of the Christological controversies was that, for the most part, the Churches were divided more by language than by belief. The so-called Monophysites, for instance, never meant to deny the full and inviolable humanity of Christ.

Origen, in spite of being recognized as one of the Fathers, was, in later times, condemned as having maintained four heresies: 1. The pre-existence of souls, as taught by Plato; 2. That the human nature of Christ, and not only His divine nature, existed before the Incarnation. 3. That, at the resurrection, our bodies shall be transformed into absol

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. God, whom I serve with my whole heart in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you. [

Prayer O God, grant me the grace to judge myself as I should. Remember your promise that if I judge myself, you will not judge me. Fill my heart with humility and charity so that I will not pardon myself, but that I will always pardon others.

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