Issue IV: Time

Introduction: The Past

The Seven Days of Creation: Genesis 1:1–2:4

St. Augustine, On Genesis against the Manichaeans I.23,35–41

“A Vast Immeasurable Sanctuary”: Saint Augustine on Memory

Preface to the Ecclesiastical History of the English People

The Black Legend: An Unbiased Analysis

Father John Lingard: How a Catholic Priest Developed the Historical Method Still Used Today

Introduction: The Present

Paul’s Warning against Idleness: II Thessalonians 3:6–15

John Chrysostom’s Sermon on 2 Thessalonians 3

On Daily Labour

Leo XIII on Rest from Labour

On Consideration, Book V

Our Lady’s Tumbler

Introduction: The Sanctification of Time

The Sacrament of the Present Moment

A Rule of Life

The Eucharist as a Meeting of Past, Present, Future, and Eternity

Introduction: The Future

Christ Admonishes Us Not to Worry: Luke 12:22-40

From the Imitation of Christ

Hope for the Lord’s Second Coming: 2 Peter 3

Lady Wisdom on Eternity and the Foreknowledge of God

The New Creation: Revelation 21

Victorinus on the New Jerusalem: Commentary on the Apocalypse 21.16

Irenaeus on the Resurrection of the Just: Against Heresies V.35

Aphrahat the Persian on Place of the Blessed: Demonstration XXII: Of Death and the Latter Times