Jacob of Sarug wrote a verse homily on Jacob the Patriarch’s Revelation at Bethel (trans. Dana Miller, Gorgias Press, 2020). This is based on Genesis 28:10-22: Now Jacob … came […]
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Month: September 2021
Benson: “Noncatholic Denominations,” Nonconformists, in general
In Part II, Chapter 3, Benson comes to a general discussion of the Nonconformists in the UK. They all have in common a repudiation of ceremonialism. Since they are attempting […]
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Non-Catholic Denominations, R.H. Benson, “Nonconformism”
Typically incisive, chapter 2 of Part II of Robert Hugh Benson’s Non-Catholic Denominations is titled “The Nonconformists: Nonconformity in General.” Now, the “Nonconformists” in English religion were those Protestants who […]
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St Luke and Modern Scholars
On 18 October we celebrate the feast of St Luke. Of course, we also remember him and seek his intercession on the occasion of the feast of the Four Evangelists. […]
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Jacob of Sarug on Simon Peter
Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on Simon Peter, when Our Lord said ‘Get behind Me, Satan.’ ed. Adam Carter McCollum, Gorgias Press The title of this work is the Homily on […]
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Benson: Non-Catholic Denominations, the Presbyterians
“The first General Assembly of the Reformed Church of Scotland met in 1560, shaped and inspired by the violent genius of John Knox, the apostate priest.” With this stirring and […]
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Benson: Non-Catholic Denominations, The Broad Church
https://archive.org/stream/tnoncatholicdenom00bensuoft/tnoncatholicdenom00bensuoft_djvu.txt (for the text of this book) The “Broad Church” party of the Church of England was the subject of chapter 6 of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s Non-Catholic Denominations. […]
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The Holy Cross as a Type
The universe, including our planetary and human worlds, were made on the model of the Holy Cross. Therefore, by meditating on those worlds, we can find the truths of the […]
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