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5 days ago · Mnesikakia (μνησικακία) is literally “the remembrance of evil” and is sometimes translated “remembrance of injury,” “nursing grudges,” or “resentment.” The word occurs more times in the Chrysostom corpus than in any other Greek Father of the Church.
4 days ago · The following quotation, attributed to St. John Chrysostom, is extremely popular in Catholic and Orthodox circles: When we speak of the wife obeying the husband we normally think of obedience in military or political terms, the husband giving orders and the wife obeying them. But while this type...
1 day ago · “How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment.” – Saint John Chrysostom . Caroline Perkins, ChurchPOP “God dwells in our midst, in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.”
5 days ago · St. John Chrysostom. Feast Day: September 13 – CNA. “If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles you would make yourself debtor to Him, while by suffering He may become debtor to you.
5 days ago · St. Michael’s Lent is our chance to fight back as one Catholic Church. Not fight back with screams and arguments but by living the beatitudes. It is a chance, like Lent, to quiet ourselves, deny ourselves, and silently pose the question to those around us “Who is like...
1 day ago · John Chrysostom (/ ˈ k r ɪ s ə s t ə m, k r ɪ ˈ s ɒ s t ə m /; Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος; c. 347 – 14 September 407 AD) [5] was an important Early Church Father who served as Archbishop of Constantinople.
1 day ago · St John Chrysostom says that the angels surround the priest, and the whole sanctuary is filled with angels honoring Christ, present in the Eucharist. He adds that we, though lowly, have been deemed worthy to join the powers of Heaven in the worship of the Lord.
