8th Sunday of Ordinary Time (C): “FROM THE FULLNESS OF THE HEART, THE MOUTH SPEAKS (Lk 6:45).” OUTLINE Summary of ideas of today’s Sunday readings. «From the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks» (Gospel for today, Lk 6:45). The need to be prudent in one’s speech. 1. Summary of ideas of today’s Sunday…
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WHAT IS NEEDED TO GROW IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD? A SERMON OF ST. COLUMBANUS, ABBOT.
The immeasurable depths of God. Instructions of St. Columbanus, Abbot God is everywhere. He is immeasurably vast and yet everywhere he is close at hand, as he himself bears witness: I am a God close at hand, and not a God who is distant. It is not a God who is far away that we…
ST GREGORY OF NYSSA ON “BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD.”
ST GREGORY OF NYSSA ON “BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD.” Bodily health is a good thing, but what is truly blessed is not only to know how to keep one’s health but actually to be healthy. If someone praises health but then goes and eats food that makes him…
BEATITUDES EXPLAINED 6: PURITY OF “HEART” IS NECESSARY TO SEE GOD.
BEATITUDES EXPLAINED 6: PURITY OF “HEART” IS NECESSARY TO SEE GOD. “Christ teaches us that the source of the quality of human acts lies in the heart, that is, in a man’s soul, in the depths of his spirit. ‘When we speak of a person’s heart, we refer not just to his sentiments, but to…
