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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 Cyril of Jerusalem on the Church as the Bride of Christ
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
From The Catecheses of St Cyril of Jerusalem, an early fourth century Bishop and Doctor of the undivided Church: “The Church is called ‘Catholic’: such is the proper name of the holy Church which is the mother of us all. She is also the bride of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God…
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