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Father Douglas J. Milewski

Church Fathers

The Fathers and Trinity Sunday, Monday, Tuesday …

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Whenever a Christian makes the Sign of the Cross, invoking the Trinitarian formula, he or she exercises a habit of patristic thought that helps solve the puzzle faced each Trinity Sunday: how to voice the ineffable. That humblest, most repeated gesture of daily prayer captures a double truth: the uniquely Christian understanding of God and Read More
Eucharist

The Eucharist

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Last summer’s Pew Research report that 69% of American Catholics believe Jesus Christ is only symbolically present in the Eucharist drew both understandable attention and merited criticism of its methodology and conclusions. It also occasioned an opportunity to consider how belief in the Real Presence has shaped Catholicism for 2,000 years. A priest’s comment from Read More

Lessons from St. Thomas Aquinas

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Entering the theological world of St. Thomas Aquinas can be like stepping into a dauntingly vast and variegated universe, not unlike how meeting St. Augustine, Dante or Shakespeare can be. Certainly St. Thomas presents unique challenges, being one of history’s greatest geniuses, who also was given to mystical experiences. Then there is the matter of Read More

Trinity Sunday and the Fathers

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To celebrate Mass is to enter into the theological and spiritual world of the ancient Church, because the Church’s Eucharistic liturgies — Eastern and Western — are fundamentally patristic “texts” shaped by the Fathers as much as they were shaped by worship. The solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity offers for contemplation within the context Read More