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Category Archives: Patristiblogging
Leo The Great: “the marvelous the power of the Cross”
Today’s PODCAzT presents a selection from St. Leo the Great’s sermon on the Passion, no. 8, also known as s. 59, preached on Palm Sunday in 444. It is a about the marvelous power of the Cross. I also talk … Read More
PODCAzT 10: Passion Sunday and Annunciation
Another PODCAzT is available for the 5th Sunday of Lent, 1st Passion Sunday, and also the Annunciation. I read from Pope Leo the Great’s all important Letter 28 to Flavian. This letter, an excerpt of which is used for the … Read More
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PODCAzT 09: Leo on the Passion; Sobrino; confessions on Good Friday
A podcazt is ready. There is a reading of one of Leo the Great’s sermons on the Passion (s. 66 3-4) preached on 10 April 453, Good Friday. I also talk about the Notification from the CDF about Jon Sobrino, … Read More
PODCAzT 08: Leo the Great on works of mercy in Lent
Another PODCAzT is ready. Today we have part of a Lenten sermon of Pope Leo I, "the Great", s. 48, preached on 13 March 455. I use that as a stepping stone to some of Pope Benedict’s encyclical Deus caritas … Read More
PODCAzT 07: St. Augustine on John 8
Podcast alert! Just to get back into the swing of things, I put together a little piece with some Augustine in Latin and English from the second reading of today’s Office of Readings for the 4th Sunday of Lent, Laetare, … Read More
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Inculturation is on “notice”
I have been reading the Notification from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith about the works of Fr. Jon Sobrino, SJ. This document is worth a very slow and careful reading. A good friend here in Rome, and … Read More
PODCAzT 06: St. Augustine on the woman at the well
It’s podcast time, so here we go again! Let’s dig into some Augustine of Hippo on this 3rd Sunday of Lent. I was going simply to use the English provided in the English language breviary but the translation is SO … Read More
PODCAzT 05: Ambrose: De fuga saeculi
Here’s another podcast! This podcast (see below for a popup link) focuses on the Patristic selection for the second reading in the Office of Readings for Saturday of the 2nd Week of Lent. I read some of the Latin, but … Read More
Friday in the 2nd Week of Lent
We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s SUPER OBLATA:Miseratio tua, Deus, ad haec peragenda mysteria,famulos tuos, quaesumus, et praeveniat competenter,et devota conversatione perducat.Per… prae… per. Interesting. con-petens… con-vers… Miseratio… devotio. This all should get … Read More
“Smite him on the face”
A while back I mentioned that I was starting to like St. John Chrysostom more and more. Here is an excursion into creative patristiblogging with John of the Golden Mouth. Here is an amusing little bit of a sermon in … Read More
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