The Best Day of the Week: Five Reasons I Love Sunday
If we could see more of what God does during the weekly gatherings of his people, Sunday might just become our favorite day of the week.
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If we could see more of what God does during the weekly gatherings of his people, Sunday might just become our favorite day of the week.
‘… when it is deprived of hope and love, faith does not fully unite the believer to Christ and does not make him a living member of his Body.’ (CCC 1815)
"Faith Alone" (sola fide in Latin) is one of the two "pillars" of the Protestant "Reformation" (along with sola Scriptura: Scripture Alone). Protestants All of the Church fathers — as Protestant scholars themselves concede — denied the novel Protestant doctrine and "pillar" of “faith alone” or sola fide.
Recently I've written about St. Jerome's view on the matter, as well as St. Ignatius of Antioch's (d. c. 110 or 117). Ignatius is described as the bishop I detail the evidence from early Fathers and Eusebius for monarchical (single) bishops being in place in cities and areas in the first and second centuries.
The holidays are overwhelming. As a Christian and an introvert, I take refuge in church.