17 July 2021
On Repentance
Repentance is the renewal of baptism. Repentance
is a contract with God for a second life. A penitent is a buyer of humility.
Saint
John Climacus (c. 525-606)
16
July 2021
On Word
and Deed
Dangerous to teach…
Saint Synkletike (a Desert Mother)
15 July 2021
On Penitence and Confession
Like hairs on the head, mortal man is joined to Jesus Christ, the head of all, but they are full of transgressions and sins because of man’s delight in the flesh. But the Church regenerates and purifies these from the unclean stench and filth of sin by penitence and confession, just as hair is cleansed from dew and drops, and as dust is shaken out and cleansed from wool.
Saint Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)
On Penitence and Confession
Like hairs on the head, mortal man is joined to Jesus Christ, the head of all, but they are full of transgressions and sins because of man’s delight in the flesh. But the Church regenerates and purifies these from the unclean stench and filth of sin by penitence and confession, just as hair is cleansed from dew and drops, and as dust is shaken out and cleansed from wool.
Saint Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)
13 July 2021
Biblical Doctrine of the Church
As Lutheran theologians we know that all serious study of the Biblical doctrine of the church brings us nearer to this goal. By studying the scriptures the fathers of the Awakening became Lutherans. Only at the hand of Scripture can our generation become Lutheran again. And so the great practical undertaking will be to find and to study the church in scripture.
Hermann Sasse
Biblical Doctrine of the Church
As Lutheran theologians we know that all serious study of the Biblical doctrine of the church brings us nearer to this goal. By studying the scriptures the fathers of the Awakening became Lutherans. Only at the hand of Scripture can our generation become Lutheran again. And so the great practical undertaking will be to find and to study the church in scripture.
Hermann Sasse
9 July 2021
On Human Beings
We should hold everyone in high esteem. We should love all humankind for they are children of God. God wants his children to love one another in the same way as a loving father wants his sons to love each other. Let us love all human beings because they are our brothers and sisters; God wants us to look at them tenderly and love them just as they are, because each is a child of God, who is beloved and adored.
Blessed Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916)
On Human Beings
We should hold everyone in high esteem. We should love all humankind for they are children of God. God wants his children to love one another in the same way as a loving father wants his sons to love each other. Let us love all human beings because they are our brothers and sisters; God wants us to look at them tenderly and love them just as they are, because each is a child of God, who is beloved and adored.
Blessed Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916)
8 July 2021
On Accountability
We spare neither labors nor means in order to teach our children secular sciences, so that they can serve well the earthly authorities. Only the knowledge of the holy Faith, the service of the Heavenly King are a matter of indifference to us. We allow them to attend spectacles but we care little whether they go to Church and stand within it reverently. We demand an account from them of what they learned in their secular institutes—why do we not demand an account from them of what they heard in the Lord’s house?
St. John Chrysostom
On Accountability
We spare neither labors nor means in order to teach our children secular sciences, so that they can serve well the earthly authorities. Only the knowledge of the holy Faith, the service of the Heavenly King are a matter of indifference to us. We allow them to attend spectacles but we care little whether they go to Church and stand within it reverently. We demand an account from them of what they learned in their secular institutes—why do we not demand an account from them of what they heard in the Lord’s house?
St. John Chrysostom
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