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Saint Gregory the Great: St Thomas and Healing the Wounds of our Disbelief
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Deacon Keith Fournier
My Lord and My God! In a marvellous way God’s mercy arranged that the disbelieving disciple, in touching the wounds of his master’s body, should heal our wounds of disbelief Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. He was the only disciple absent; on his return he…
A Sermon by St Augustine on St John’s Gospel: Behold, I shall save my people.
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
‘No-one can come to me unless the Father draws him.’ You must not imagine that you are being drawn against your will, for the mind can also be drawn by love. Nor should we be afraid of being taken to task by those who take words too literally and are quite unable to understand divine…
A Letter of St Clare to Blessed Agnes of Prague on Christian Contemplation
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
Consider the poverty, humility and charity of Christ Happy the soul to whom it is given to attain this life with Christ, to cleave with all one’s heart to him whose beauty all the heavenly hosts behold forever, whose love inflames our love, the contemplation of whom is our refreshment, whose graciousness is our delight,…
St Ambrose: God’s temple is holy, and you are his temple
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
An explanation of Psalm 118 by St Ambrose My father and I will come to him and make our home with him. Open wide your door to the one who comes. Open your soul, throw open the depths of your heart to see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the sweetness of grace.…
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