Author: Tradition Magazine
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To Die Is Gain
About the Author: Aaron P. Debusschere is the husband of one and father of three. He holds degrees in philosophy, theology, and education, and is currently completing a dissertation on the Augustinian roots of Vatican II’s ecclesiology. He blogs with his wife at www.theromanticcatholic.wordpress.com. — Persons of the dialogue Socrates, Paul, Luke, Crito Scene The Prison…
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“Death’s Lament” by Ephrem the Syrian
About the Author: Ephrem the Syrian was born around 306 in the city of Nisibis in Syria. He served as a deacon and is credited as the founder of the School of Nisibis, which would later become a centre of learning for Eastern Syriac Christianity. Ephrem is known as the “Harp of the Spirit” on…
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A Last Word
We close this edition of Tradition Magazine by giving the last word again to the poet Richard Crashaw (1613–49). Lord, when the sense of thy sweet graceSends up my soul to seek thy face.Thy blessed eyes breed such desire,I dy in love’s delicious Fire.O love, I am thy Sacrifice.Be still triumphant, blessed eyes.Still shine on…
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From the Book of Revelation, Chapter 20, Verses 11 – 12
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it; from his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life.…
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Augustine, Confessions
About the Author: Augustine of Hippo was born in Roman North Africa in the year 354. After spending several years as a Manichee, he was led to the Catholic faith by Neo-Platonist philosophy and the preaching of St. Ambrose of Milan. All the while, Augustine’s mother, St. Monica, was praying for his homecoming. Augustine tells…
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Jesus on the Resurrection of the Dead
About the Work: In the Gospel of Matthew (22:23-33), we find Jesus engaged with the Sadducees, one of the four schools of Jewish thought at the time. The Sadducees were sympathetic to – and in time, would be absorbed into – the Greek culture around them. They denied that there would be a Resurrection and…
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“An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife”
About the Author: Richard Crashaw, born in London around 1612 and was the son of the rabidly anti-Catholic Puritan polemicist, William Crashaw. Drawn to the beauty of Catholic doctrine and practice, Richard became a High Church Anglican priest, known for his devotion to Mary and penchant for Catholic vestments. When Oliver Cromwell seized power in…
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Requiem Aeternam
by Tate Pumfrey Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord, Who now ascend the ladder laced in light Perpetual. That day of tears, of fright, Of mourning, mounts before these souls who ford Across the hidden hem of time toward That shore immortal. Christ, you did delight In calling Lazarus from death to life, Now…
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Ars Moriendi: How Jesus Died
About the work: A second excerpt from the “Craft of Dying” reflects on Christ’s death and draws from it five pieces of advice for those on the point of death. Furthermore, forasmuch as Saint Gregory saith: Every doing of Christ is our instruction and teaching; therefore such things as Christ did dying on the cross,…
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The Death of Corrupt Clergymen
About the Author: Thomas of Cantimpré (1201 – 1272) was pushed into the Church because a hermit told his father that unless one of his sons became a priest, the father would spend a very long time in purgatory. But Thomas took to the priestly life, becoming a noted preacher and theologian and writing several…