On the #FifthSundayOfLent, #StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #John 11:43, “Here we have a man past the prime of life, a corpse, decaying, swollen, in fact, already in a state of dissolution, so that even his own relatives did not want…”
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On the #FirstSundayOfLent, #StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #Genesis 3:6, “Those who have been tricked into taking poison offset its harmful effect by another drug. The remedy, moreover, just like the poison, has to enter the…”
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#StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #1Samuel 24:5 on #Friday of OT 2, “When, therefore, he was alone and had removed his robe and laid it down somewhere beside him, the light from the mouth of the cave made him visible to those hidden…”
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Today, we remember Saint Gregory of Nyssa, bishop and mystic. He defended Christ’s divinity and shaped Christian thought through prayer and theology. His legacy still guides the Church. #jesus #jesuschrist #catholicchurch #catholic #saintgregoryofnyssa #stgregoryofnyssa
Happy 2/3 Cappadocian Feast Day! The Church recalls the memory of Saints #Basil and #Gregory. Basil’s younger brother, #StGregoryOfNyssa ‘rounds’ out the dynamic trio who brought great clarity to Trinitarian & Christological debates of the 4th Century. patrolo.gy/a5l
On the #ThirdSundayOfAdvent, #StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #Isaiah 35:1, “And where shall we place that oracle of Isaiah, which cries to the wilderness, “Be glad, O thirsty wilderness. Let the desert rejoice and blossom as a lily…”
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“A prayer to the Good Shepherd” — #StGregoryOfNyssa — “Where do you pasture your sheep, O good Shepherd, you who carry on your shoulders the whole flock? For it is but one sheep, this entire human race whom you lift onto your shoulders. Show me the…”
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On the #Memorial of the #HolyGuardianAngels, #StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #Psalm91, “When the great David heard and understood this, he [David] said to him “who dwells in the shelter of the most High; He will overshadow you with...”
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On #Sunday 26 in OT, #StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #Luke 16:23, “I said, “What are the fire, the gulf, or the other things which are mentioned, if they are not what they are said to be?” “It seems to me,” she [Macrina] said, “that the Gospel wishes...”
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#StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #1Timothy 6:10 on Friday of OT 24, “The tree, then, from which comes this fruit of mixed knowledge is among those things which are forbidden. Its fruit is combined of opposite qualities, and therefore...”
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A pink and starry background with a quote from St Gregory of Nyssa about rising higher in perfection toward the Transcendent.
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“The goals pursued by humans for the sake of bodily pleasure are goals of sinners and distractions of a soul drag...” #StGregoryOfNyssa «On Ecclesiastes» #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #Solemnity #Eighteenth #Sundaymass
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On #Sunday OT 18, #StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #Ecclesiastes 1:2, “Vanity may be described as something which lacks existence but exists only in the utterance of this word. The reality behind the word is nonexistent; only the...”
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“The goals pursued by humans for the sake of bodily pleasure are goals of sinners and distractions of a soul drag...” #StGregoryOfNyssa «On Ecclesiastes» #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #Solemnity #Eighteenth #Sundaymass
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“But if you want to enjoy also the physical sense of taste, let hunger be your flavoring...” #StGregoryOfNyssa «Homily 4 on the #LordsPrayer» #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #Solemnity #Seventeenth #Sundaymass
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“But if you want to enjoy also the physical sense of taste, let hunger be your flavoring...” #StGregoryOfNyssa «Homily 4 on the #LordsPrayer» #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #Solemnity #Seventeenth #Sundaymass
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On the #Feast of #StMaryMagdalene, #StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #SongOfSongs 3:4, “The chamber is indeed the heart that becomes an acceptable dwelling of God when it returns to that state which it had in the beginning made by “her...”
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“God is like an inaccessible rock” — #StGregoryOfNyssa — “Consider the feelings of a man who looks down into the depths of the sea from the top of a mountain. This is similar to my own experience when the voice of the Lord from...”
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“The Christian is another Christ” — #StGregoryOfNyssa — “No one has known Christ better than Paul, nor surpassed him in the careful example he gave of what anyone should be who bears Christ’s name. So precisely did he mirror his Master that he...”
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“…and no one who looks into the matter will deny that “glory” means the Holy Spirit…” #StGregoryOfNyssa «Homily 15 on Song of Songs» #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #Easter #Seventh #Resurrection #Sundaymass patrolo.gy/EasterVIIc
On the #SeventhSundayOfEaster, #StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #John 17:22, “In giving “all power” to his disciples by his blessing, in his prayer here to the Father he grants many other favors to those who are holy. And he…”
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“The glory you gave to me, I have given to them” — #StGregoryOfNyssa — “When love has entirely cast out fear, and fear has been transformed into love, then the unity brought us by our savior will be fully realized, for…”
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“…and no one who looks into the matter will deny that “glory” means the Holy Spirit…” #StGregoryOfNyssa «Homily 15 on Song of Songs» #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #Easter #Seventh #Resurrection #Sundaymass
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“The firstborn of the new creation” — #StGregoryOfNyssa — “The reign of life has begun, the tyranny of death is ended. A new birth has taken place, a new life has come, a new order of existence has appeared, our very nature has been transformed!…”
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#StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #John 14:6 on Friday of #Easter 4, “[Eunomius] speaks of God as “without beginning, eternally without end, alone.” Once more “understand, you simple ones,” as Solomon says, “his subtlety,” in case you…”
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“… by its desire of the heavenly things straining ahead for what is still to come, as the Apostle says…” #StGregoryOfNyssa «Life of Moses» #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #FifthSundayOfLent #Sundaymass
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“… by its desire of the heavenly things straining ahead for what is still to come, as the Apostle says…” #StGregoryOfNyssa «Life of Moses» #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #FifthSundayOfLent #Sundaymass
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#StGregoryOfNyssa ponders #Mark 9:41 on Thursday of OT Week 7, “God never asks his servants to do what is impossible. The love and goodness of his Godhead is revealed as richly available. It is poured out like water upon all…”
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“Christ is our head, and the wise man keeps his eyes upon Him” — #StGregoryOfNyssa — “We shall be blessed with clear vision if we keep our eyes fixed on Christ, for he, as Paul teaches, is our head, and there is in him no shadow of evil. Saint Paul…”
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“For the Christian who has advanced by means of good discipline and the gift of the Spirit to the measure of the age of…” #StGregoryOfNyssa «On the Christian Mode of Life» #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #SundayMass
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