Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Studies " -ELEANOR BOURG NICHOLSON

" -ELEANOR BOURG NICHOLSON

National Catholic Register

This powerhouse of a book masterfully vindicates the Church’s rich teachings on matrimony

this first-ever English translation of Dutilliet’s text intends to offer the faithful “the enduring enchantment of the admirable year of the Church” and the understanding that “all in her worship is full of meaning

reductionism—all that goes by the name of modernity—has descended over this ancient treasury of divine wisdom

Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Studies " -ELEANOR BOURG NICHOLSONAlthough 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