"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Okay, this one is a little different. This is what I’ve been listening to all morning. It is audio from Saint Pope John-Paul II, interlaced with background music. It’s surprisingly good to have on in the background while working… 🙂
The greater the [sense of] responsibility for the [other] person, the more true love is there
– Pope John-Paul II, Love and Responsibility
At the dawn of a new year, this seems to me like a speech we need to hear!
Happy New Year everyone 🙂
“The future starts today, not tomorrow”
– Pope John Paul II
This has been my wallpaper for the last few weeks:
Yesterday was the feast day of one of my favourite Early Church Fathers, St. John Chrysostom . I’ve said for a while now that I’ve wanted to work to produce something which introduces Pope St. John-Paul II’s “Theology Of The Body” using the writings of St. John Chrysostom, to use this revered eastern father as a gateway for Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians who haven’t really been exposed to the Catholic Church’s former pontiff’s magnum opus.
Below is a short video from the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology which speaks a little bit about St. John Chrysostom’s beautiful theology surrounding marriage:
I’ve mentioned before about being rather mystified about how people talk contrast Pope Francis with Pope Benedict as though Pope Francis is doing something utterly different from his predecessors…
