Among the firmament of early Church Fathers, the star of John Chrysostom (347-407) shines especially bright. He’s best known for his homilies and the Divine Liturgy of John Chrysostom, still celebrated in Eastern churches.
As his biography in the Catholic…
saint of the day
This observation Pope Benedict XVI made in a homily a few years ago about St. Augustine really stuck with me—here’s the full comment:
Pope Benedict—St. Augustine was a man who never lived superficially; his thirst, his restless and constant thirst…
A famous American jurist once said that a man must share in the action and passion of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Saint Paphnutius, the Egyptian monk and bishop whom the Catholic Church honors…
Sainthood, it sometimes seems, runs in the family. In today and tomorrow’s feasts of St. Monica and St. Augustine, we have one of the most famous parent-child saint pairs. But theirs is not the only one.
Here are some others…
