by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon In First Peter the sufferings and death of Jesus serve to bolster a pervasive exhortation to Christian patience, service, and longsuffering, following the example given in the Lord's Passion. This moral preoccupation with patience in affliction reflects the hostile … [Read more...]
On The Holy Sacrifice
St. Gregory the Great, the Dialogist ca. 540-604 And here also we have diligently to consider, that it is far more secure and safe that every man should do that for himself while he is yet alive, which he desireth that others should do for him after his death. For far more blessed it is, to depart … [Read more...]
The Eucharist As Sacrifice
Compiled by Maximus ScottPhilip Schaff 1819-1893The Catholic church, both Greek and Latin, sees in the Eucharist not only a sacramentum, in which God communicates a grace to believers, but at the same time, and in fact mainly, a sacrificium, in which believers really offer to God that which is … [Read more...]
