Women also who administer drugs to cause abortion, as well as those who take poisons to destroy unborn children, are murderesses. - Letters 188:8 (374 A.D).
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Why Mortal Sins Require Confession according to St. Augustine
In three ways then are sins remitted in the Church; by baptism, by prayer, by the greater humility of penance. - St. Augustine
St. Ambrose’s Teaching on the Indissolubility of Marriage
You dismiss your wife as if by right and without being charged with wrongdoing; and you suppose it is proper for you to do so because no human law forbids it; but divine law forbids it. Anyone who obeys men ought to stand in awe of God. Hear the law of the Lord, which...
Christ Is The Sacrament | St. Ambrose
Perhaps you may be saying, “I see something else; how can you assure me that I am receiving the body of Christ?” It only remains for us to prove it. And how many are the examples we might use! . . . Christ is in that sacrament, because it is the body of Christ."-St....
St. Ambrose Invokes St. Peter’s Intercession: “May He Weep for Us”
May Peter, who wept so efficaciously for himself, weep for us and turn towards us Christ’s benign countenance.
St. Ambrose On Mary’s Virtues, Perpetual Virginity, And Immaculate Conception
Imitate Mary, holy mothers, who in her only dearly beloved Son set forth so great an example of maternal virtue; for neither have you sweeter children, nor did the Virgin seek the consolation of being able to bear another son. - St. Ambrose Letters...
True Soldiers of Christ Must be Prepared to Do Battle for the Truth
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
Early Church Author Explains Mary’s Perpetual Virginity
But some say, basing it on a tradition in the Gospel according to Peter, as it is called, or “The Book [Protoevangelium] of James,” that the brothers of Jesus were sons of Joseph by a former wife, whom he married before Mary. Now those who say so wish to preserve the...
Sinners Must Not Shrink from Declaring Their Sin to the Priest
In addition to these there is also a seventh [remission of sins], but it is hard and laborious: the remission of sins through penance, when the sinner washes his pillow in tears [Ps 6:7], when his tears are his nourishment day and night [Ps 41:4], and when he does...
Early Church on Abortion: Even if it is Legal, It is the Greatest Impiety!
For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those things esteemed lawful among men. . . . Therefore let no one imagine that this is allowed, to...
What Happens To Our Bodies When We Receive The Eucharist | St. Irenaeus
But our opinion is in accordance with the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn establishes our opinion. For we offer to Him His own, announcing consistently the fellowship and union of the flesh and Spirit. For as the bread, which is produced from the earth, when it...
What Eve Bound With Unbelief The Virgin Mary Set Free With Faith
It was that the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the Virgin Mary set free through faith.St. Irenaeus
“I wish my voice could reach all sinners…”
"I wish my voice could reach all sinners: Come to Christ where all is love."
“The Rosary Is THE weapon.” | St. Padre Pio
“The Rosary is THE weapon.”- St. Padre Pio
If You Can’t Do Big Things For God, Do This | St. Dominic Quote
“I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.” https://catholic-link.org/quotes/3-powerful-quotes-real-presence-st-irenaeus/
St. Dominic Says The Rosary Will Save The World
“One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world.”- St. Dominic See Catholic-Link’s Ultimate Visual Guide to the Rosary for more information!
“Fly to the Catholic Church! The Only Faith Exists from the Beginning”
Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.
Early Critique Of Abortion In The Church: “How Great Impiety!”
Women, reputed believers, began to resort to drugs to produce sterility, and to gird themselves round, so to expel what was being conceived on account of their not wishing to have a child either by a slave or any paltry fellow, for the sake of their family and...
When You Feel Despised
"When you feel despised, imitate the kingfisher, who builds its nest on the masts of ships. That is to say, raise yourself up above the earth, elevate yourselves with your mind and heart to God, who is the only one who can console you and give you strength to...
What Was Confession Like for the Early Church? Cyprian of Carthage Responds!
Sinners may do penance for a set time, and according to the rules of discipline come to public confession, and by imposition of the hand of the bishop and clergy receive the right of Communion. [But now some] with their time [of penance] still unfulfilled . . . they...
Who Goes to Heaven and Who Goes to Hell? St. Athenagora’s (177 A.D.)
For if we believed that we should live only the present life, then we might be suspected of sinning, through being enslaved to flesh and blood, or overmastered by gain or carnal desire; but since we know that God is witness to what we think and what we say by night...
“Women who use drugs to bring on abortion commit murder…”
What man of sound mind, therefore, will affirm, while such is our character, that we are murderers? . . . When we say that those women who use drugs to bring on abortion commit murder, and will have to give an account to God for the abortion, on what principle should...
St. Justin Martyr on the Indissolubility of Marriage
Concerning chastity, [Jesus] uttered such sentiments as these: “Whosoever looks upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart before God.” And, “If your right eye offend you, cut it out; for it is better for you to enter into the...
Why Is Mass On Sunday Important? St. Justin Martyr Responds
But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead. St. Justin Martyr (First...
The Disobedience Of Eve And The Obedience Of The Virgin Mary
[Jesus] became man by the Virgin so that the course that was taken by disobedience in the beginning through the agency of the serpent might also be the course by which it would be put down. Eve, a virgin and undefiled, conceived the word of the serpent and bore...