The Symposium Or Banquet Of The Ten Virgins (On Chastity) + Kindness (((Catholic Audiobooks))) Methodius taught that Jesus Christ remained a virgin His whole life as an example for men: “What then did the Lord, the Truth and the Light, accomplish on coming down to the world? He preserved His flesh incorrupt in virginity with…

And They Immediately Leaving Their Nets, Followed JESUS And they straightway left their nets. (For their leaving everything Wetstein, on ver. 19, compares Epictetus, 12, Ἐάν δὲ κυβερνήτης καλέσῃ τρέχε ἐπὶ τὸ πλοῖον ἀφεὶς ἐκεῖνα πάντα μηδὲν ἐπιστρεφόμενος, “If the steersman call, run to the ship, leaving all those things, without regarding anything.”) The Rheims…

Homilies On Philippians – Written By Saint John Chrysostom (Bishop And Doctor Of The Church) The Epistle to the Philippians, is a letter written by St. Paul the Apostle and Timothy to the clergy of Philippi. It is included in the New Testament of the Bible. Philippi is a city in Macedonia, a city that…

And HE Saith To Them: Come Ye After Me, And I Will Make You To Be Fishers Of Souls Follow me.–The command came, as we have seen, to those who were not unprepared. Short as it was, it was in some sense the first parable in our Lord’s teaching, the germ of an actual parable…

Concerning Grace And Free Will By Saint Bernard Of Clairvaux (Doctor Of The Church) The subject of the treatise was suggested, as is plain from the text itself, as the result of a public, or at any rate semi-public, discussion with some person unknown in which St. Bernard, strongly commending the work of grace, had…

The Paradise Or Garden Of The Holy Fathers (Book 2 & 3) The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St. Anthony the Great, who moved to the desert in 270 AD and became known as both the father and…

2 Versions Of The Book On Loving GOD By Saint Bernard Of Clairvaux + Some Selected Excerpts On Loving God is one of the best-known and most influential works of Medieval Christian mysticism. Written at the request of one of the cardinals of Rome, it describes the four “levels” of love for God, and puts…

Turn To GOD And Change The Way You Think And Act, Because The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Near! From that time began Jesus to proclaim and to say, ‘Reform ye, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens.’

And To Those Sitting In A Region And Shadow Of Death, A Light (JESUS) Arose To Them The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light. And for those who lived in the land where death casts its shadow, a light has shined.”