As you, my readers, have probably already decided, Cyril is not necessarily easy to understand. In the last issue I shared with you that in Cyril it is the Transfiguration glory that is a foreshadowing of that vision of Christ … Continue reading
Category Archives: Learning Our Faith from the Church Fathers
If you, my dear readers, have been trying to follow this article, you have already gotten a sense of the struggle the early Church went through in order to come to some real understanding of Who Christ IS and what … Continue reading
In this article I have presently been dealing with St. Cyril of Alexandria’s ideas about the resurrection of the human body. St. Cyril stated that the Lord’s Resurrection must have also included His body since its very purpose was to … Continue reading
In St. Cyrill’s Commentary on John, he refers explicitly to the reason for Christ’s appearance to St. Thomas and to all the apostles in His resurrected human body. He writes: What need was there for the showing of His hands … Continue reading
St. Cyril tells us that the only human person thus far to have achieved the blessed state of union with God is the Most Holy Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, through whom the Son of and Word of God … Continue reading
There is another outstanding Greek Father of the Church whose writings we should all be aware of, that is St. Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria. He wrote much on the resurrection of the human body. It has been said that … Continue reading
In the last issue of this article, I shared with you this thought of Gregory: if we wish to be with Christ, then we must become like Him. As St. John, the most theological of the evangelists, instructs us, “God … Continue reading
St. Gregory teaches, along with all the great Fathers of the Church, the vision of Christ in glory which he sees as truly synonymous with the mystery of the precious and life-giving Cross. This is precisely because the Cross reveals … Continue reading
I have recently been sharing with my readers the thoughts of our Father among the Saints, Gregory Palamas. It just dawned on me that many may know nothing about him. So I thought that I would, in this issue, share … Continue reading
St. Gregory points out that Christ is not only the Sole Revealer of God, He is also the Sole Revealer of God’s purpose in His creation of man. In simple terms, what is true of Christ’s humanity can also be … Continue reading