Tag: fathers

Rabanus Maurus: Exegete, Philosopher, Poet and Pastor

The Vatican Information Service reports, 3 June 2009: At his general audience this morning, Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis to Rabanus Maurus, abbot of the monastery of Fulda, archbishop of Mainz and…

St Theodore the Studite: Order, Obedience, Renunciation

The Vatican Information Service reports, 27 May 2009: In this morning’s general audience, the Pope continued with his series of catechesis on the great writers of the Eastern and Western Church in…

St John Damascene, a Leading Figure of Byzantine Theology

The Vatican Information Service writes, 6 May 2009: In his general audience held this morning in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope focused his remarks on St. John Damascene (675-749), “a leading figure…

Germanus of Constantinople, Defender of Holy Images

The Vatican Information Service reports: During his general audience this morning Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis to St. Germanus of Constantinople, who “played an important role in the complex history of the…

East-West Monastic Meeting II, Minster Abbey, Autumn 1998

The Orientale Lumen movement in England was initiated as a series of East-West Christian Monastic Meetings by the community of Roman Catholic Benedictine nuns at Minster Abbey. The first took place in…

East-West Monastic Meeting I, Minster Abbey, Autumn 1996

The Orientale Lumen movement in England was initiated as a series of East-West Christian Monastic Meetings hosted by the community of Benedictine nuns at Minster Abbey in England. The first took place…