Category Archives: Patristiblogging

Formerly NAPLAM – For Patristibloggers – blog posts concerning the Fathers of the Church

7 December St. Ambrose of Milan, Doctor and Very Cool

Today is the feast of St. Ambrose.  I have a 1st class relic in the Two Trinities Chapel, so he is, in a sense, a homie. St. Ambrose of Milan (+4 April 397), was a titanic figure of the late … Continue reading

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“It was in these cataclysmic days that the people chose a certain Roman Deacon Gregory to be their new Bishop.”

In 589 Deacon Aigulf trekked home to Tours with relics he had collected in Rome. St. Gregory of Tours relates in his Historia Francorum that Aigulf saw with his own eyes the disasters that struck Rome that year. The Tiber rose to … Continue reading

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Patristic Rosary Project – 4th Glorious Mystery: The Assumption

Some years ago, I made something called the Patristic Rosary Project, reflecting on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary especially with quotes from the Fathers of the Church.  Here is the entry for today’s beautiful feast: 4th Glorious Mystery: The … Continue reading

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1st Sunday after Pentecost: Soul Food

Those who attend Holy Mass on Sundays according to the Vetus Ordo hear the texts for Trinity Sunday (yesterday) but not those for the 1st Sunday after Pentecost (yesterday). The texts for the 1st Sunday after Pentecost can be used … Continue reading

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St. Monica, her incipient alcoholism, the intervention that saved her. WORLD HISTORY CHANGING in an INSTANT!

In the older calendar, today is St. Monica’s Feast, also spelled Monnica, a Punic name. Monica was an inch away from becoming an alcoholic. (The story of her abusive husband has been told here before.) This is IMPORTANT. At the … Continue reading

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31 March – Feast of St. Amos, Old Testament Prophet

Today in the older Roman Martyrology it is the Feast of the Old Testament Prophet Amos. Many of the Old Testament figures are considered saints and they have feast days, quite a few in Advent (for obvious reasons) but also … Continue reading

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“The young are more to be pitied, since they know not of what they have been deprived.”

How fresh the Fathers of the Church can be in our own times.   No wonder Pope Benedict wrote that we need to recover the perspective and methods of the Fathers. Let’s not imagine that we are the only ones who … Continue reading

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Consubstantial with His Father. Consubstantial with His Mother.

From today’s Matins. Magnificent…. Sacraméntum reconcilatiónis nostræ, ante témpora ætérna dispósitum, nullæ implébant figúræ; quia nondum supervénerat Spíritus Sanctus in Vírginem nec virtus Altíssimi obumbráverat ei, ut, et intra intemeráta víscera, ædificánte sibi Sapiéntia domum, Verbum caro fíeret, et, forma … Continue reading

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5th Glorious Mystery: The Crowning of Our Lady, Queen of Heaven and Earth

Today is the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, in the new-fangled, Novus Ordo calendar. Here is an oldie post from 2006, the final installment of my Patristic Rosary Project. ___ We conclude our Patristic Rosary Project today with the: … Continue reading

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4th Glorious Mystery: The Assumption – Patristic Rosary Project

Some years ago, I made something called the Patristic Rosary Project, reflecting on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary especially with quotes from the Fathers of the Church.  Here is the entry for today’s beautiful feast: 4th Glorious Mystery: The … Continue reading

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