Category: Florilegium Patristicum

A house of God built of living stones

From the Commentary on the Gospel of John by Origen, Priest “But he spoke of the temple of his body.”  When, therefore, Christ was raised...

Saint Chrysostom on the Maccabees

From the Treatise on Psalm 43 by St John Chrysostom, Bishop & Doctor “We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told...

Man has been made the friend of God

From the Exhortation to the Heathen by St Clement of Alexandria, Priest It will not, it will not be pleasing to God Himself if we...

Tossed by waves yet not submerged

Our incomparable Saint John Chrysostom spoke to us at Matins this morning. To listen to the Fathers is to begin to see things from the...