"The Sage Sayeth"

Episode #1: A Year with the   Church Fathers                              Make Time for God                             -St. Basil, Hexameron, 3.1 Episode #2:  Through the Year with Thomas Merton                              -On Fasting                             -Season of Celebration Episode #3:  Magnificat -February 2023 - Vol. 24 No. 12     Item #1: A reading from the Gospel According to    ...

Episode #1:  A Year with the Church Fathers                              'What we mean by "the right hand of the Father"                             - St John of Damascus, Exact Expositions of the                               Orthodox Faith, 4.2 Episode #2:  Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                               God's Paradox - Seasons of Celebration Episode #3: ...

Episode #1 -  A YEAR WITH THE CHURCH FATHERS                               Live A Life Worthy of the Resurrection                              - St. Gregory the Great, Sermon 59, 8 Episode #2 -  Through the Year with Thomas Merton                               Light of the World                              -Life and Holiness- Episode #3 -  Magnificat - February 2023 - Vol. 24 No 12       Item #1:...

Episode #1 -  A Year with the Church Fathers                               Cross the Bridge to Heaven                               - St. Ephrem the Syrian,                                 Homily on Our Lord, 4                      Episode #2 -  Through the Year with Thomas Merton-                                Doing Great Things                               - New Seeds of Contemplation Episode...

Episode #1: - A Year with the Church Fathers-                               Let your Tears Turn to Joy                              -  St John Chrysostom -                                   Commentary on John, 20:11-3 Episode #2: - Through the Year with Thomas Merton-                                Dangerous Ambiguities                                -Seeds of Destruction Episode #3: - Magnificat...

Episode #1 - A Year with the Church Fathers -                              Christ taught by doing                              - St. John Chrysostom- Against Marcionist and                                 Manicheans, 4 Episode #2 - Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                               A Refusal to Love - Conjectures of a Guilty                              Bystander Episode #3 - Magn...

Episode #1 - A Year with the Church Fathers -                            Learn to Suffer from Christ                             -St. Gregory the Great, Sermon, 58.5 Episode #2 - Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                              The Narrow Limit                               The Sign of Jonas Episode #3 - Magnificat - February 2023 - Vol. 24 No. 12   Item #1: A reading from the Go...

Episode #1 -  A Year with the Church Fathers-                              Find you strength in Jesus' weakness                             -St Gregory the Great, Sermon 44, 5 Episode #2 -  Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                               An Easy Virtue                              -No Man Is an Island Episode #3 - Magnificat -February 2023 - Vol. 24 No 12    Item #1: A rea...

Episode #1 - A Year with the Church Fathers                              Follow the Magi                                St. John Chrysostom, Homily 7 on Matthew 6 Episode #2 - Through the Year with Thomas Merton                                 A Stranger to Myself                                 Seasons of Celebration Episode #3 - Magnificat - February 2023 - Vol. 24 No. 12          Item #1: A rea...

Episode #1 - A Year with the Church Fathers -                              Bring Christ the Gifts of the Magi-                                St. Gregory, the Great, Sermon 36, 1   Episode #2 - Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                                Conscience                                -No Man Is an Island Episode 3 - Magnificat - February 2023 - Vol. 24 No. 12       Item #1: A r...

Episode 1 - A Year with the Church Fathers                            Take Christ as your Model of Love                             -Aphrahat, Demonstration 2,19 Episode 2 - Through the Year with Thomas Merton                            In Deep Solitude                            -The Sign of Jonas Episode 3 - Magnificat - February 2023 - Vol. 24 No. 12     Item #1: A reading from the Gospel Accor...

Episode 1 - A Year with the Church Fathers                           Don't Misjudge Christ's Kingdom                           - St Gregory the Great , Sermon 34,2 Episode 2 - A Dying World                         - No Man Is an Island Episode 3 - Magnificat - February 2023 - Vol. 24 No. 12      Item #1 - A reading from the Gospel According to:                            Mark 6:1-6      ...

                 Episode A - A Year with the Church Fathers -                                            Put good things in their place -                                             St. Augustine, City of God 15.5                   Episode B - Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                                             Guided by Nobody                                              - New Seeds...

           Episode A - A Year with the Church Fathers -                                      Vice proves that our nature is good                                        -St. Augustine, City of God   12.3            Episode B - Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                                        Giving Advice                                        -The sign of Jonas            Episode C - Ma...

                     Episode A - A Year with the Church Fathers -                                                "Thank God for the wicked" -                                                 St. John Chrysostom, Homily 3 on the                                                 Power of Demons, 1                       Episode B - Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                        ...

Episode A - A Year with the Church Fathers - "Believe - it's the rational                            thing"  - St. Athanasius, "On the Incarnation of the Word" Episode B -Through the Year with Thomas Merton - Definitions of                                     Prayer - Contemplation in a World Action , and                                                      - A Time for Co...

Episode A - A Year with the Church Fathers -                           "Believe, then use your Reason" -                             Origen, Against Celsus, 1.9 Episode B - Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                             Resolution - New Seeds of Contemplation Episode C - Magnificat - January 2023 - Vol. 24 No. 11                           Item #1: A reading from the Go...

Episode A - A Year with the Church Fathers - "Praise                           God for the Beauty of Light" - St. Basil,                            Hexameron, 2.7 Episode B - Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                             Moments of Rest  - Contemplation in a                            World of Action Episode C - Magnificat - January 2023 - Vol. 24 No. 11              ...

                   Episode A - A Year with the Church Fathers -                                               Remember that everything is made for                                                a reason -  St. Basil, Hexameron, 5.4                     Episode B - Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                                                Sanity of Solitude - Contemplation in a World      ...

             Episode A - A Year with the Church Fathers -                                        Appreciate God's Mercy after the Fall -                                         St. John Chrysostom, Homily I on the power                                         of Demons, 2                Episode B - Through the Year with Thomas Merton -                                          A Symbolic Figur...

Day 11 is the rendering of each of three (3) Episodes: Episode A – A Year with the Church Fathers - Use what God gave you the way God intended, taken from Tetullian, On the Shows , 2 Episode B – Through the Year with Thomas Merton – A Pharisee, taken from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander Episode C – From the Fathers of the Churches – A reading from a sermon by Lancelot Andrewes, preached on Chris...

Day12 is the rendering of each of three (3) Episodes: Episode A – A Year with the Church Fathers – Look for truth in every way, find it in Christ, taken from St. Clement of Alexandria, Miscllany, 1.20 Episode B – Through the Year with Thomas Merton – Peak of Intensity, taken from No Man Is an Island Episode C – From the Fathers of the Churches – Or 7, Theophany – A reading from the Orations of St...

Episode A - A year with the Church Fathers: The reading is entitled: "Nature shows us the Resurrection" - St Clement, 1 Corinthians, 24 Episode B - Through the Year with Thomas Merton: The reading entitled: "A serious Birthday" from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander Episode C - From the Fathers of the Churches  is a reading from Sermon 160, the Sermons of St Peter Chrysologus T...

Episode A - "Don't underestimate God" Episode B - "The Solitary View" - Disputed Questions Episode C - A reading from the last words of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, preached in a sermon from the Scafold on Tower Hill, Before he was beheaded, 10 January, 1645 - "I have looked unto Jesus" The Home of "The Sage Speaketh" Podcast Designed for the...

"The Sage Sayeth" is making ready for her maiden voyage. Initially it is anticipated that there will be three (3) Episodes daily: A, B & C. Episode A is entitled: A Year with the Church Fathers - Patristic Wisdom For Daily Living - by Mike Aquilina.  In a sense, the time of the Fathers is over.  It's complete.   But now we must reproduce that moment, and their movement, within o...