CATHOLIC BOOKWORM

These notes originally appeared on my OTHER SITE.
 
Having warned his listeners not to approach the their baptismal instructions-and, by implication, their baptism- out of mere curiousity (section 2), the Saint now tells the story of  a guest who shows  up to a wedding feast in unseemly dress and with bad manners.   He is clearly adopting [...]

The purpose of the Protocatechesis (hereafter Pc) was to commend the people for their desire for baptism and to exhort them to maintain this desire and bring it to fruition. At this point it might be well to go back and read section 1 of the Pc. At the very least, one should recall [...]

1. Already there is an odor of blessedness upon you, O you who are soon to be enlightened; already you are gathering the spiritual flowers, to weave heavenly crowns; already the fragrance of the Holy Spirit has breathed upon you; already you have gathered round the vestibule of the king’s palace; May you be [...]

St Athanasius On The Incarnation
A Synopsis of the introductory chapter
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Introductory- The subject of the treatise: the humiliation and incarnation of the Word. Presupposes the doctrine of creation, and that by the word. The father has saved the world by him through whom he first made it.
 
Paganism has been discussed [...]

5. The Blessed Trinity In Tradition
The testimony of tradition on the Holy Trinity is extensively treated in the history of dogma. Here we shall discuss only the more important questions relating to the difference between tradition in the ante-Nicene and post-Nicene periods. These questions have at all times been discussed in the Church, and St. [...]

I’ve just added the monumental, six volume biography on Martin Luther done by the Jesuit historian Hartmann Grisar. You can access and read them online by going to my “Church History Page” and clicking on the link.  On this same page I also provide a link to Father M.J. Lagrange’s study “The Meaning of [...]