From the Roman office of the feast. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing.Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement.℟. Amen. Reading 4From the Sermons of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.2nd on the AscensionDearly beloved brethren, our Saviour is gone up from us into heaven, but let us not be troubled on earth. Let only…
Whatever soul of you wishes to be truly faithful, anoint like Mary the feet of the Lord.
O foolish consultation and blinded rage!
He would not walk in Judea.
Already He signified what He is to do with the quick and the dead.
℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing.Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement.℟. Amen. Reading 4From the Sermons of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Patriarch of Constantinople.Discourse on the Epiphany, 2I am not able to restrain the outbursts of my happiness. I feel changed and elated. I forget my own meanness while I undertake and try to discharge…
There are some heretics who believe Him to be God, but confess not His Kingly dominion over all things.
"Arise, and take the child and his mother."
Because of the lofty and glorious flight of his teaching.
He did not rejoice at the thought that God would take vengeance on his persecutors.
"Schismatics have no love."
