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Showing posts with label Early Church Father. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Early Church Father. Show all posts

Friday, May 11, 2018

Saint Quote: Saint Epiphanius of Salamis, Early Church Father


Saint Epiphanius of Salamis (church father, ca. 310–20 – 403), fresco at Gracanica monastery




We see that the Savior took the bread in His hand, and when He had given thanks He said: “This is my body....” And we see that it is not equal or similar to either a corporeal image, or the invisible Deity, or the arrangement of the members of the body. For it is of rounded shape and without feeling as far as its power is concerned. But He wanted to say by grace: “This is my body...” and no one should refuse to believe this statement. For he who does not believe that He is truthful, as He Himself has said, cuts himself off from grace and salvation. But what we have heard, that we believe, namely, that it is His body and blood.

Saint Epiphanius of Salamis



Sunday, December 31, 2017

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe

Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe - PD-1923


The blessed Paul argues that we are saved by faith, which he declares to be not from us but a gift from God. Thus there cannot possibly be true salvation where there is no true faith, and, since this faith is divinely enabled, it is without doubt bestowed by his free generosity. Where there is true belief through true faith, true salvation certainly accompanies it. Anyone who departs from true faith will not possess the grace of true salvation.

Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe



Sunday, December 24, 2017

Saint John Chrysostom Quote on Bethlehem

"Adoration of the Shepherds" by Gerard van Honthorst (1622) - PD-1923
"Adoration of the Shepherds"
by Gerard van Honthorst (1622)


Bethlehem this day resembles heaven; hearing from the stars the singing of angelic voices; and in place of the sun, enfolds within itself on every side, the Sun of justice. And ask not how: for where God wills, the order of nature yields. For He willed; He had the power; He descended; He redeemed; all things yielded in obedience to God. This day He Who is, is Born; and He Who is, becomes what He was not. For when He was God, He became man; yet not departing from the Godhead that is His. Nor yet by any loss of divinity became He man, nor through increase became He God from man; but being the Word He became flesh, His nature, because of impassability, remaining unchanged.

Saint John Chrysostom


Saint John Chrysostom's patronage: Constantinople; education; epilepsy; lecturers; orators; preachers



Saint John Chrysostom fresco - PD-1923

Friday, November 24, 2017

Saint Peter Chrysologus Quote

Saint Peter Chrysologus - PD-1923


The first Adam was made by the last Adam, from whom he also received his soul, to give him life. The last Adam was formed by his own action; he did not have to wait for life to be given him by someone else, but was the only one who could five life to all. The first Adam was formed from valueless clay, the second Adam came forth from the precious womb of the Virgin. In the case of the first Adam, earth was changed into flesh; in the case of the second Adam, flesh was raised up to be God.

What more need be said? The second Adam stamped his image on the first Adam when he created him. That is why he took on himself the role, and the name, of the first Adam, in order that he might not lose what he had made in his own image. The first Adam, the last Adam; the first had a beginning, the last knows no end. The last Adam is indeed the first; as he himself says: I am the first and the last.

Saint Peter Chrysologus from a sermon

Saint Peter Chrysologus' patronage: Against fever; Against mad dogs



Thursday, November 16, 2017

Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus Quote

Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus Icon - PD-1923


There is a perfect Trinity, in glory and eternity and sovereignty, neither divided nor estranged. Wherefore there is nothing either created or in servitude in the Trinity; nor anything superinduced, as if at some former period it was non-existent, and at some later period it was introduced. And thus neither was the Son ever wanting to the Father, nor the Spirit to the Son; but without variation and without change, the same Trinity abideth ever.

Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus from a declaration of faith by him



Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus' patronage: Against earthquakes; against floods; desperate causes; forgotten causes; impossible causes; lost causes.