Encountering Jesus with the Church Fathers

Today’s podcast features an excerpt from Origen’s Commentary on Matthew reflecting on Jesus’ teaching proclaimed at Mass today. (Origen. The Commentary of Origen on the Gospel of St Matthew, Volume II. Translated, introduced and annoted by Ronald E. Heine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780199669073.)

Today’s podcast features an excerpt from Saint Hilary of Poitiers’ Commentary on Matthew reflecting on Jesus’ teaching concerning living the Kingdom of God with wisdom and preparedness as sounded in the Parable proclaimed at Mass today. St. Hilary of Poitiers. Commentary on Matthew. Translated by D. H. Williams. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780813201252

Today’s podcast features an excerpt from Saint Gregory of Nyssa’s “First Homily on the Beatitudes” pondering Jesus’ Words proclaimed at Mass today. (Saint Gregory of Nyssa. “First Homily on the Beatitudes.” Translated by Stuart George Hall. In Gregory of Nyssa: Homilies on the Beatitudes. Edited by Hubertus R. Drobner and Albert Viciano. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000. ISBN: 9789004116214.)

Today’s podcast features an excerpt from Origen’s Commentary on Matthew reflecting on Jesus’ teaching proclaimed at Mass today. (Origen. The Commentary of Origen on the Gospel of St Matthew, Volume II. Translated, introduced and annoted by Ronald E. Heine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780199669073.)

Today’s podcast features an excerpt from Saint Cyril of Alexandria’s Commentary on Isaiah reflecting on the First Reading proclaimed at Mass on the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Today is also World Mission Sunday and the Scriptures and Prayers may be different at Mass. Cyril of Alexandria. Commentary on Isaiah Volume III: Chapters 40 - 50. Translated by Robert Charles Hill. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781885652966 This Sunday’s blog article examines the Babylonian Captivity and the role of Cyrus the Great in restoring Jerusalem and the Temple.

Today’s podcast features an excerpt from Pope Saint Gregory the Great’s Homily 38 on Matthew reflecting on the wedding garment imagery in the proclamation of God’s Word this Sunday from the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Gregory the Great. Forty Gospel Homiles. Translated by Dom David Hurst. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1990. ISBN: 9780879077235 This Sunday’s blog article ponders Jesus’ use of the wedding garmet imagery in His Parable proclaimed at Mass this Sunday

Today’s podcast features an excerpt from Saint Ambrose of Milan’s Hexameron (On the Six Days of Creation) reflecting on the vineyard imagery in the proclamation of God’s Word this Sunday from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah and the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. St. Ambrose of Milan. Hexameron, Paradise, Cain and Abel. Translated by John J. Savage. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1961. ISBN: 9780813213835 This Sunday’s blog article ponders Jesus’ use of the vineyard imagery in His Parable.

Today’s podcast features an excerpt from Saint Gregory of Nyssa’s Refutation of the Views of Apolinarius reflecting on the proclamation of God’s Word from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Philippians. St. Gregory of Nyssa. Anti-Apollinarian Writings. Translated by Robin Orton. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780813228075 This Sunday’s blog article ponders Jesus’ call to on-going conversion and doing the Father’s will.

This Sunday’s podcast features an excerpt from Saint Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses, pondering the sin of envy that Jesus condemns in the Gospel’s proclamation at Mass this Sunday. This Sunday’s article at my blog site ponders Jesus’ parable proclaimed from The Gosepl according to St Matthew concerning the significance of the vineyard: https://patrolo.gy/2026OT25A.

Today’s podcast features an excerpt from Origen’s Commentary on Matthew reflecting on Jesus’ Words proclaimed at Mass today. This Sunday’s blog article reflects on Jesus’ challenge to Peter to forgive as Jesus forgives. (Origen. The Commentary of Origen on the Gospel of St Matthew, Volume II. Translated, introduced and annoted by Ronald E. Heine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780199669073.)