Lawrence of Brindisi

For example, in St. Gregory's Vespers hymn for Tuesday, the third day of the week, the Church prays, Benignant Creator of the world, who didst divide the surface of the earth, and driving off the troubled waters didst firmly establish the land, that it might bring forth appropriate produce, be adorned with golden flowers, become prolific in fruits.

St. Lawrence of Brindisi mastered all the languages of the Bible, knew the entire Bible by heart, and is the last doctor of the church to write a detailed commentary on Genesis.

And in his commentary, He considers the traditional Vespers prayers of St. Gregory so authoritative that they settled a long-standing theological question.

Was the sun created on the fourth day, or was it merely formed from light that God had created on day one? St.

For example, in St. Gregory's Vespers hymn for Tuesday, the third day of the week, the Church prays, Benignant Creator of the world, who didst divide the surface of the earth, and driving off the troubled waters didst firmly establish the land, that it might bring forth appropriate produce, be adorned with golden flowers, become prolific in fruits.

St. Lawrence of Brindisi mastered all the languages of the Bible, knew the entire Bible by heart, and is the last doctor of the church to write a detailed commentary on Genesis.

And in his commentary, he considers the traditional Vespers prayers of St. Gregory so authoritative that they settled a long-standing theological question.

Was the sun created on the fourth day, or was it merely formed from light that God had created on day one? St.

Yeah, totally.

We're not Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, Lawrence Brindisi here.

You know what I'm talking about? We're just trying our lousy best.

And hey, I'll take the Val's Islands.

They always have at least one sermon on Mary, and St. Alphonsus always thought this sermon on Mary's mercy was the most effective for calling people to confession and back to the church.

It's been said that what Saints Peter Canisius and Lawrence of Brindisi did for Germany, and what Saint Francis de Sales did for Switzerland, that's what Saint Alphonsus Liguori did for Italy.

But Italy never really had the Lutherans like Germany or the Calvinists like Switzerland.

What Italy did have was the heresy known as Jansenism.

He required the Redemptorists to affirm their belief in it, even though it was not yet confirmed as a dogma.

St. Alphonsus was also a proponent of Mary's mediation.

Following with St. Lawrence of Brindisi, he taught that Mary is the mother of all graces.

Of course, he would clarify that Mary is not the source of grace, that is Jesus, but it is by her role in the Incarnation and by her intercession that she is the Mediatrix of Grace.