Tradition Magazine, Issue Six: Christmas
Part IV: The Meaning of Christmas
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Three Hymns for the Birth of Christ
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 account of the numerous hymns he wrote to teach the faith. Am…
On the Virgin Birth
About the Text: St. Augustine (354–430) preached regularly throughout his over thirty years as a bishop in Hippo. Unfortunately, we have only about a fifth of what would amount to nearly two thousand sermons over his tenure as a preacher. This sermon, preached on the occasion of Christmas, reflects on the birth of Christ from a virgin—before, during, an…
O Blessed Light
About the Author: Aaron P. Debusschere is the husband of one and father of three. He holds degrees in philosophy, theology, and education, and currently teaches the humanities at a private Catholic school. He blogs with his wife at www.theromanticcatholic.wordpress.com
Two Christmas Sermons
About the Author: St. Leo I reigned gloriously as the Bishop of Rome from 440 to 461. He is well known for his defence of the two natures of Christ before and during the Council of Chalcedon in the letter nicknamed the “Tome of Leo.” Here we provide two of his sermons preached on the feast of Christmas, which, in characteristic fashion, emphasise the un…
The Shop of Ghosts
About the Author: The journalist and novelist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was one of England’s best known and most well-spoken Catholics in his time. Catholics and many others find much of value in his book Orthodoxy, but Chesterton also had a vast output of articles and essays in which he discusses topics important and trivial, funny and sad…