Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Studies patriarchy

patriarchy

In this approachable guide

always faithfully observing the rubrics and resisting bad habits that interfere with the rite’s full splendor and efficacy: unseemly haste

Ave Maria University and Author of The Music of Christendom: A History

and his identification of attitudes that block the reunion of the Churches have made The Orthodox Eastern Church

Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Studies patriarchyAlthough the Commonitorium is among the most famous and influential of fifth century Latin Patristic works, relatively little is known about its author, Vincent (the pilgrim, as he calls himself), a late vocation monk of Lrins Abbey on the Isle of Saint Honorat off the coast of France. Yet the voice that speaks to us from these pages is rich in personality, deftly trained in logic, rhetoric, theology, and history. His thesis is clear, his argument