Prayer After Communion

The Didache is an extraordinary document in Christian History. Although it is not part of God’s word, it gives modern day Christians a blueprint of how the earliest Church Fathers understood the Church during Her infant stages. Today as I was reading it my eyes focused on Chapter 10 titled, “Prayer after Communion”. I read it with…

Outside The Walls: February 16, 2015

Featuring Monday’s Readings Letter to the Corinthians from St. Clement Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio Examining Lenten practices and much more!

The Sign of the Cross

  Click Image to see Jesus make the sign of the cross The Sign of the Cross is a simple gesture yet a profound expression of faith for both Catholic and Orthodox Christians. As Catholics, it’s something we do when we enter a church, after we receive Communion, before meals, and every time we pray.…

Fasting – What the Early Church Fathers Said

What is fasting? Refraining from food and drink as an expression of interior penance, in imitation of the fast of Jesus for 40 days in the desert. Fasting is an ascetical practice recommended in Scripture and the writings of the Church Fathers; it is sometimes prescribed by a precept of the Church, especially during the liturgical…