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Divine Office | The hidden sacrament is revealed

In today's Office of Readings we encounter a treatise by St Hippolytus against the Noetic heresy ( - 235 A.D.). Hippolytus was a priest and a learned man, the most important writer of the Church at Rome in the early third century. He strongly attacked the popes of the time, and was set up as a rival Pope to St Callistus. Some time later, in Maximin’s persecution, he was sent to labour in the quarries of Sardinia. There he met the then Pope, Pontian, and was reconciled with him. (Pontian was made Pope in 231, and was sent to the quarries in 235, where he resigned the papacy and died; Hippolytus must have died at about the same time). For a reflection, "The hidden sacrament is revealed," please click on the image. Peace be with you!

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Divine Office | Water and the Spirit

In today's Office of Readings we encounter a reading from the discourse on the Theophany by pseudo-Hippolytus ( - 235 A.D.). Hippolytus was a priest and a learned man, the most important writer of the Church at Rome in the early third century. He strongly attacked the popes of the time, and was set up as a rival Pope to St Callistus. Some time later, in Maximin’s persecution, he was sent to labour in the quarries of Sardinia. There he met the then Pope, Pontian, and was reconciled with him. (Pontian was made Pope in 231, and was sent to the quarries in 235, where he resigned the papacy and died; Hippolytus must have died at about the same time). For a reflection, "Water and the Spirit," please click on the image. Peace be with you!

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Divine Office | The word made flesh makes us divine

In today's Office of Readings we encounter a reading from the treatise of St Hippolytus "On the Refutation of All Heresies" ( - 235 A.D.). Hippolytus was a priest and a learned man, the most important writer of the Church at Rome in the early third century. He strongly attacked the popes of the time, and was set up as a rival Pope to St Callistus. Some time later, in Maximin’s persecution, he was sent to labour in the quarries of Sardinia. There he met the then Pope, Pontian, and was reconciled with him. (Pontian was made Pope in 231, and was sent to the quarries in 235, where he resigned the papacy and died; Hippolytus must have died at about the same time). For a reflection, "The word made flesh makes us divine," please click on the image. Peace be with you!

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Divine Office | The hidden sacrament is revealed

In today's Office of Readings we encounter a treatise by St Hippolytus against the Noetic heresy ( - 235 A.D.). Hippolytus was a priest and a learned man, the most important writer of the Church at Rome in the early third century. He strongly attacked the popes of the time, and was set up as a rival Pope to St Callistus. Some time later, in Maximin’s persecution, he was sent to labour in the quarries of Sardinia. There he met the then Pope, Pontian, and was reconciled with him. (Pontian was made Pope in 231, and was sent to the quarries in 235, where he resigned the papacy and died; Hippolytus must have died at about the same time). For a reflection, "The hidden sacrament is revealed," please click on the image. Peace be with you!