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NEW ADVENT: Home Advent, St Newman, and the Forgiveness of Sins Marlon De La Torre Among the many remarkable literary gifts the great Doctor of Catholic education, St John Henry Newman, has left us, one resonates as we prepare to recall the nativity of our Lord during this Advent season In his meditation on the effects of sin, he describes with great detail what sin does to man His description of the
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Matins - NEW ADVENT The elements of Matins from the fourth to the sixth century In all the authors we have quoted, the form of Night Prayers would appear to have varied a great deal Nevertheless in these descriptions, and in spite of certain differences, we find the same elements repeated: the psalms generally chanted in the form of responses, that is to say by one or more cantors, the choir repeating one verse
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: First Council of Constantinople Its first measure was to confirm St Gregory Nazianzen as Bishop of Constantinople The Acts of the council have almost entirely disappeared, and its proceedings are known chiefly through the accounts of the ecclesiastical historians Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret There is good reason to believe that it drew up a formal treatise (tomos) on the Catholic doctrine of the Trinity, also against
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Guardian Angels - NEW ADVENT In the Bible this doctrine is clearly discernible and its development is well marked In Genesis 28-29, angels not only act as the executors of God's wrath against the cities of the plain, but they deliver Lot from danger; in Exodus 12-13, an angel is the appointed leader of the host of Israel, and in 32:34, God says to Moses: "my angel shall go before thee " At a much later period we have the
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Venerable Bede - NEW ADVENT After this Bede inserts a list or Indiculus, of his previous writings and finally concludes his great work with the following words: And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face It is plain
CHURCH FATHERS: Council of Ephesus (A. D. 431) - NEW ADVENT But I return to the point which especially I had in mind And now I urge you, as a brother in the Lord, to propose the word of teaching and the doctrine of the faith with all accuracy to the people, and to consider that the giving of scandal to one even of the least of those who believe in Christ, exposes a body to the unbearable indignation of God And of how great diligence and skill there