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The Fathers and Trinity Sunday, Monday, Tuesday …

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Whenever a Christian makes the Sign of the Cross, invoking the Trinitarian formula, he or she exercises a habit of patristic thought that helps solve the puzzle faced each Trinity Sunday: how to voice the ineffable. That humblest, most repeated gesture of daily prayer captures a double truth: the uniquely Christian understanding of God and Read More
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Befriending the Church Fathers

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Priests are “fathers” whose compassionate care wells up from the spring of their inclusive love for the people of God. These fathers have been “fathered” by the Trinitarian mystery and befriended in a special way by the Fathers of the Church on whose wisdom they draw in their roles as teachers and preachers. This article Read More

Trinity Sunday and the Fathers

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To celebrate Mass is to enter into the theological and spiritual world of the ancient Church, because the Church’s Eucharistic liturgies — Eastern and Western — are fundamentally patristic “texts” shaped by the Fathers as much as they were shaped by worship. The solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity offers for contemplation within the context Read More

The Chair of St. Peter

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This past September, I had the awesome experience of vesting a good friend in his deaconate ordination. Michael Bissex is a seminarian for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York, and alongside his classmates from the Pontifical North American College (NAC), he was ordained a deacon at the altar of the Chair of St. Peter Read More