https://freerepublic.com/tag/johndamascene/ en-us Thu, 7 May 2009 01:56:38 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2245805/posts Dear brothers and sisters: I would like to speak today about John Damascene, a prominent personality in the history of Byzantine theology, a great doctor in the history of the universal Church. He is above all an eye witness of the passage from the Greek and Syriac culture, shared in the eastern part of the Byzantine Empire, to the culture of Islam, which took over space with its military conquests in the territory ordinarily recognized as the Middle or Near East. John, born to a rich Christian family, took on while still young the post -- perhaps also held by... Zenit https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2245805/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2009 01:56:38 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2216521/posts (The following is excerpted from the 27 March entry in Volume V of the 1983 Marian House edition of the English translation of 'The Liturgical Year' by the Benedictines of Stanbrook.) "The feast of today was added by Pope Leo XIII in 1892, and now [Saint] John Damascene, the quondam vizier, the protégé of Our Lady, the monk, whose excellent doctrine won for him the name of 'Golden stream,' commemorates in the Western cycle the heroic struggle [against iconoclasm] in which the East rendered such glorious services to the Church and to the world." "The account given by the... Dignare Me Laudare Te, Virgo Sacrata https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2216521/posts#comment Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:02:46 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1034526/posts Putting the Word into Practice Mary opened to us the unspeakable abyss of God's love for us. Through her the old enmity against the Creator is destroyed. Through her our reconciliation with him is strengthened, peace and grace are given to us, men and women are the companions of angels, and we, who were in dishonor, are made the children of God. From her we have plucked the fruit of life. From her we have received the seed of immortality. She is the channel of all our goods. In her God was man and was God. What more marvelous or... December 2003 Magnificat https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1034526/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:05:00 GMT