28 Jun 2024, 11:10 UTC770 views2 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Just as the senses can neither grasp nor perceive the things of the mind, just as representation and shape cannot take in the simple and the shapeless, just as corporal form cannot lay hold of the intangible and incorporeal, by the same standard of truth beings are surpassed by the infinity beyond being, intelligences by that which is beyond intelligence.
Indeed the inscrutable One is out of the reach of every ratio…
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20 May 2024, 11:09 UTC487 viewsread 8 August 2026 When we hear the word "spirit" it is impossible for us to conceive of something whose nature can be circumscribed or is subject to change or variation, or is like a creature in any way
Instead, we are compelled to direct our thoughts on high, and to think of an intelligent being, boundless in power, of unlimited greatness, generous in goodness, whom time cannot measure.
All things thirsting for holiness turn to Him…
18 May 2024, 10:05 UTC368 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
These things having learnt, and being fully persuaded that what seems bread is not bread, though bread by taste, but the Body of Christ; and that what seems wine is not wine, though the taste will have it so, but the Blood of Christ; and that of this David sung of old, saying, And bread which strengtheneth man's heart, and oil to make his face shine (Ps.104:15), 'strengthen thine heart', partaking thereof as spiritua…
18 May 2024, 08:54 UTC187 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Now turn from the ancient to the recent, from the figure to the reality. There we have Moses sent from God to Egypt; here, Christ, sent by His Father into the world: there, that Moses might lead forth an oppressed people out of Egypt; here, that Christ might rescue mankind who are whelmed under sins: there, the blood of a lamb was the spell against the destroyer: here, the blood of the unblemished Lamb Jesus Christ i…
20 Apr 2024, 12:17 UTC204 views2 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
When the Lord says to the leper who was cleansed, Go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, in testimony to them (Lk 5:14), he seems to approve of the sacrifice that was commanded by Moses, although the Church has not accepted it.
He can be understood to have ordered this because the sacrifice, the holy of holies, which is his body, had not yet begun, for he had not y…
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15 Apr 2024, 14:41 UTC414 views1 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Shun schisms, as the source of troubles. Let all follow the bishop as Jesus Christ did the Father, and the priests, as you would the Apostles. Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God. Apart from the bishop, let no one perform any of the functions that pertain to the Church. Let that Eucharist be held valid which is offered by the bishop or by one to whom the bishop has committed this charge. Wherever th…
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15 Apr 2024, 10:23 UTC153 viewsread 8 August 2026 Forwarded from @wayofchristPhoto
Ignatius Theophorus to the Church on which the majesty of the most high Father and of Jesus Christ, His only Son, has had mercy; to the Church beloved and enlightened by the faith and charity of Jesus Christ, our God, through the will of Him who has willed all things that exist–the Church in the place of the country of the Romans which holds the primacy.
I salute you in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Fathe…
14 Apr 2024, 11:30 UTC493 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Come together in common, one and all without exception in charity, in one faith and in one Jesus Christ, who is of the race of David according to the flesh, the son of man and Son of God, so that with undivided mind you may obey the bishop and the priests, and break one Bread which is the medicine of immortality and the antidote against death, enabling us to live for ever in Jesus Christ.
St Ignatius of Antioch, Epi…
13 Apr 2024, 11:30 UTC277 views2 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
While we are yet on earth, let us repent. For we are as clay for the hand of the workman. Just as the potter, if he makes a vessel and it bends or breaks in his hands, shapes it over again, but if he has gone so far as to put it into the fiery oven, can do nothing to help it any more; so let us also, while we are still in this world, repent with our whole heart of the evil things we have done in the flesh, that we ma…
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12 Apr 2024, 14:29 UTC270 views3 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
These things, dearly beloved, we are writing, not only to warn you, but also to remind ourselves; for we are in the same arena, and the same contest lies before us. For this reason let us abandon empty and silly concerns, and come to the glorious and holy rule of our tradition.
Let us see what is good and pleasing and acceptable in the sight of our Maker. Let us fix our gaze on the blood of Christ and realize how p…
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9 Apr 2024, 10:31 UTC164 viewsread 8 August 2026 Enquiring then what was the source of my judgment, when I did so judge I had discovered the immutable and true eternity of truth above my changing mind.
Thus by stages I passed from bodies to the soul which uses the body for its perceiving, and from this to the soul's inner power, to which the body's senses present external things, as indeed the beasts are able; and from there I passed on to the reasoning power, to …
8 Apr 2024, 10:44 UTC259 views2 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
I now tried to discover other truths, as I had already come to realise that incorruptibility is better than corruptibility, so that You must be incorruptible, whatever might be Your nature.
For no soul has ever been able to conceive or ever will be able to conceive anything better than You, the supreme and perfect Good. Therefore since the incorruptible is unquestionably to be held greater than the corruptible– and …
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