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St. Peter Chrysologus – sermon on the annunciation"Any you shall call His name Jesus, because in His Name we adore the entire majesty of the Godhead. All who dwell in the heavens, those who abide upon the earth, and every one of those who are held in the depths of hell, bow down prostate to this Name. This is the Name which gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, agility to the lame, speech to the mute, and life to the dead; the power of this Name forced the mastery of the devil entirely from the bodies of the possessed."
St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop of Ravenna (d. ca. 450 AD) is credited with being one of the earliest Church Fathers to give special devotion to the most Holy Name of Jesus. This meditation is taken from a sermon of his on the Annunciation - exact date is not known. |
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