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2666. Mas o nome que tudo encerra é o que o Filho de Deus recebe na sua encarnação: JESUS. O nome divino é indizível para lábios humanos mas, ao assumir a nossa humanidade, o Verbo de Deus comunica-no-lo e nós podemos invocá-lo: «Jesus», « YHWH salva» . O nome de Jesus contém tudo: Deus e o homem e toda a economia da criação e da salvação. Rezar «Jesus» é invocá-Lo, chamá-Lo a nós. O seu nome é o único que contém a presença que significa. Jesus é o Ressuscitado, e todo aquele que invocar o seu nome, acolhe o Filho de Deus que o amou e por ele Se entregou.
2667. Esta invocação de fé tão simples foi desenvolvida na tradição da oração sob as mais variadas formas, tanto no Oriente como no Ocidente. A formulação mais habitual, transmitida pelos espirituais do Sinai, da Síria e de Athos, é a invocação: «Jesus, Cristo, Filho de Deus, Senhor, tende piedade de nós, pecadores!». Ela conjuga o hino cristológico de Fl 2, 6-11 com a invocação do publicano e dos mendigos da luz (14). Por ela, o coração sintoniza com a miséria dos homens e com a misericórdia do seu Salvador.
2668. A invocação do santo Nome de Jesus é o caminho mais simples da oração contínua. Muitas vezes repetida por um coração humildemente atento, não se dispersa num «mar de palavras», mas «guarda a Palavra e produz fruto pela constância». E é possível «em todo o tempo», porque não constitui uma ocupação a par de outra, mas é a ocupação única, a de amar a Deus, que anima e transfigura toda a acção em Cristo Jesus.

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Clement of Rome to Corinthians

Christ, the Saints and David as examples of humility


Epistle to Diognetus

The manners of Christians, their relation to the world, the spiritual life


Polycarp to Philippians

Ascetic virtue and doctrinal purity


St. Ignatius

Death as a way to freedom in Christ
Prayer without ceasing, the Christian as athlete, the ascetic in the middle between the married and the bishop



Chastity according to Christ's teaching : CONCERNING chastity, He uttered such sentiments as these: "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart before God." And, "If thy right eye offend thee, cut it out; for it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of heaven with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into everlasting fire." - Read CompleteTrue fast : This is not the fast which I have chosen, saith the Lord; but loose every unrighteous bond, dissolve the terms of wrongous covenants, let the oppressed go free, and avoid every iniquitous contract. Deal thy bread to the hungry, and lead the homeless poor under thy dwelling; if thou seest the naked, clothe him; and do not hide thyself from thine own flesh. - Read Complete
The value of the body : That the flesh is with God a precious possession is manifest, first from its being formed by Him, if at least the image is valuable to the former and artist; and besides, its value can be gathered from the creation of the rest of the world. For that on account of which the rest is made, is the most precious of all to the maker. - Read Complete
Philosophy as likeness to God : AS the good of the body is health, so the good of the soul is knowledge, which is indeed a kind of health of soul, by which a likeness to God is attained - Read Complete

Irenaeus of Lyons



The engratites

Passion and the flesh

The meaning of martyrdom and virginity

Sin and humility: the meaning of Adam's girdle

On work as askesis

The priest and the monk

On lack of property

Spirituality and the body

Spiritual and carnal men

On mortification

The final result of the work of the Spirit is the salvation of the flesh

Melete thanatou

The doctrine of the cross

Fornication

Body and soul

Hermas' Pastor
Renunciation of the riches is necessary for a man to be useful to God : When you were rich, you were useless; but now you are useful and fit for life...
The Golden Part who have escaped from this world : For as gold casts away its dross, so also will ye cast away all sadness and straitness, and will be made pure so as to fit into the building of the tower
On real fasting : First of all, be on your guard against every evil word, and every evil desire, and purify your heart from all the vanities of this world
Purity of body and soul : If you defile your flesh, you will also defile the Holy Spirit
On alms-giving : both he who is in want, and he who suffers inconveniences in his daily life, is in great torture and necessity. Whoever, therefore, rescues a soul of this kind from necessity, will gain for himself great joy


The world as a prison, the martyrs as athletes (The Christian outside the prison has renounced the world, but in the prison he has renounced a prison too. It is of no consequence where you are in the world - you who are not of it)

Patience is God's nature (He cared for the ungrateful; He yielded to His ensnarers. This were a small matter, if He had not had in His company even His own betrayer, and stedfastly abstained from pointing him out.)

Fasting as a prerequisite of the remembrance of God (if the eternal God will not hunger, as He testifies through Isaiah, this will be the time for man to be made equal with God, when he lives without food)

Of Stations, and of the Hours of Prayer (we must pray always, and everywhere, and at every time; yet still these three hours, as being more marked in things human - (hours) which divide the day, which distinguish businesses, which re-echo in the public ear - have likewise ever been of special solemnity in divine prayers)

St. Basil the Great

1. To Eustathius the philosopher   2. To St. Gregory  4. To Olympius    12. To Olympius    13. To Olympius    14. To Gregory his friend 18. To Macarius and John    22. On the Perfection of the Life of Solitaries

23. To a Solitary    52. To the Canonicoe    79. To Eustathius of Sebastia  93. To the Patrician Coesaria, concerning Communion 105. To the deaconesses, the daughters of Count Terentius

106. To a soldier    119. To Eustathius, of Sebasteia 124. To Theodorus    173. To Theodora the Canoness    174. To a Widow  207. To the clergy of Neocaesarea    210. To the notables of Neocaesarea 223. Against Eustathius of Sebasteia    226. To the ascetics under him 244. To Patrophilus, bishop of Aegae    249. Without address; Commendatory

256. To the very well beloved and reverend brethren the presbyters Acacius, Aetius, Paulus, and Silvanus; the deacons Silvinus and Lucius, and the rest of the brethren the monks, Basil, the bishop

257. To the monks harassed by the Arians    262. To the Monk Urbicius 284. To the assessor in the case of monks    293. To Julianus    295. To monks

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