How being grateful humanizes us

How being grateful humanizes us

We have been created by Love and for love, in such a way that our life could be summed up as the path in which we learn how to learn to love and be loved. We are people “on the way,” learning how to be the people God has created us to be. During our life...
Types of Prayer in the Early Church

Types of Prayer in the Early Church

Researching the origins of Christianity is an opportunity to recover the meaning of life from the roots that hold us together in faith. If we look at the prayer life of the early Church, we find that it can be split-up into various types of prayer: the prayer of...
Prayer in the early days of the Church

Prayer in the early days of the Church

Tertullian, an ecclesiastical author of the late second century, writes in one of his first treatises on prayer that “only prayer conquers God” (De oratione 29, 2). It’s a provocative phrase! But already in the Old Testament, the book of Sirach tells...