#St John Chrysostom

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Laughter has been implanted in our soul that the soul may sometimes be refreshed

-St. John Chrysostom

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Saint John Chrysostom Bishop and Doctor of the Church c. 344-407 Feast Day: September 13 (New), January 27 (Trad) Patronage: orators, preachers, speakers, lecturers, education, epilepsy, Constantinople

Saint John Chrysostom was born to a Christian mother and a pagan Roman father. His father died, and his mother guided his education with the best of Christian and Greek philosophies and tutors. He became an eloquent orator (being called “Golden Mouth”), writing about the priesthood, marriage, and care for the poor and sick. His most famous homily is “On the Resurrection” and he edited the liturgy of St. Basil the Great. When he was Bishop of Constantinople, the empress Extoxia, exiled him because he was too influential. He died in exile, his last words were “Glory to God for all things”.

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“When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe that there are troops of angels and archangels standing by you, and trembling with respect before the sovereign Master of Heaven and earth. Therefore, when you are in church, be there in silence, fear, and veneration.”

- Saint John Chrysostom

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One Minute Reflection – 6 July – “O man of little faith, why did you doubt?” Matthew 14:31

One Minute Reflection – 6 July– “The Month of the Most Precious Blood” – The Octave Day of Sts Peter and Paul – Sirach 44:10-15, Matthew 14:22-33 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/ “O man of little faith, why did you doubt?” … Matthew 14:31 REFLECTION – “Once again the disciples are a plaything of the waves and a storm, similar to the first one (Mt 8:4), hurls itself against them.…

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"If a poor man comes to you asking for bread, there is no end of complaints and reproaches and charges of idleness; you upbraid him, insult him, jeer at him. You fail to realize that you too are idle and yet God grants you gifts.

Now don’t tell me that you actually work hard. If you call earning money, making business deals, and caring for your possessions 'work', I say, 'No, that is not work. But alms, prayers, the protection of the injured and the like – these are genuine work.' You charge the poor with idleness; I charge you with corrupt behavior.

Don’t you realize that, as the poor man withdraws silently, sighing and in tears, you actually thrust a sword into yourself, that it is you who received the more serious wound?

Let us learn that as often as we have not given alms, we shall be punished like those who have plundered. For what we possess is not personal property; it belongs to all.

God generously gives all things that are much more necessary than money, such as air, water, fire, the sun – all such things. All these things are to be distributed equally to all.

'Mine' and 'thine' – these chilling words which introduce innumerable wars into the world – should be eliminated from the church. Then the poor would not envy the rich, because there would be no rich. Neither would the poor be despised by the rich, for there would be no poor. All things would be in common."

- Saint John Chrysostom, as quoted by Charles Avila from Ownership: Early Christian Teaching, 1983.

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PRE-SCHISM BRACKET: ROUND 1

Polls to begin on Sunday, 11 June. Below is the bracket for the pre-schism saints. You can still submit nominations and votes for post-schism saints, modern saints, and beatified folks.

The polls will be as follows:

St Monica vs St Justin Martyr

St Blaise vs St Guthlac

St Augustine vs St John Gualbert

St Benedict vs St John Damascene

St Barbara vs St Columba

St Jerome vs St Isidore of Seville

St Nicholas vs St Valentine

St Patrick vs Pope St Leo the Great

St Anselm vs St Maximus the Confessor

St Ciaran of Saigir vs St Moses the Black

St Gregory Nanzianzus vs St Gregory of Nyssa

St John Chrysostom vs St Irenaeus

St Macrina vs St Cyprian

St Mary of Egypt vs St David

St Anthony the Great vs St Athanasius

St Aurea of Paris vs St Basil

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"Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward and learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude." - St. John Chrysostom

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Necessity urges us to pray for ourselves. Fraternal Charity obliges us to pray for others. God finds the prayer motivated by charity to be more meritorious than the prayer motivated by necessity.

St. John Chrysostom

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