“If you wish to prevent all evil thoughts, let your eyes be modestly reserved, and make a league with them never to look upon anything which it is not permitted you to desire.” St. Gregory of Nyssa (4th century) “As water extinguishes fire, so prayer extinguishes the heat of the...

“What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace,...

“I have this from the all-holy eyes of God that see the good and the evil everywhere. For those blessed and all-holy eyes have not seen among sinners anyone more vile or insufficient than I am. And so in order to do that wonderful work which He intends to do,...

“Since, by the goodness of God, we who are called ‘Christians’ have been granted the honor of sharing this name – the greatest, the highest, the most sublime of all names – it follows that each of the titles that express its meaning should be clearly reflected in us. If...

The Wisdom of the Saints……………………….about the Incarnation (part 4) “The Lord entered [Mary] to become a servant. The Word came into her to keep silence in her womb. The thunder came into her to make no sound whatever. The shepherd came into her and see, the Lamb is born, crying...

“It is His breath that is in us, and when He wants to, He will take it away.” Pope St. Clement I (1st century) “Treat this body with care, I pray you, and understand that with this body you will rise from the dead to be judged. But if any...

By Sarah Bedia “If you were the handsomest and the richest man in the world, and could work wonders and drive out devils, all that would be  something extrinsic to you; it would not belong to you and you could not boast of it.  But there is one thing of...

The Wisdom of the Saints………………………about Holy Scripture (part 3) “Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome, and laying the foundations of the Church. After their departure, Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, did also hand...

The Wisdom of the Saints.…about the Virgin Mary (part 5) “And thus also it was that the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, thus did the virgin Mary set free through faith.” St. Irenaeus (2nd-3rd...