“Whatever things are rightly said are ours.” St. Justin looked at creation and saw Christ. He looked into the mind of Plato and found a Christian, born centuries before his time. Speaking with Romans, speaking with Greeks, speaking with Jews, he sought the good in his adversaries’ best ideas and showed that the good belonged properly to Christ and Christians. Though he lived in the second century, his description of the Mass was used in the Church’s 20th-century Catechism. He showed us how to be fearless in the face of ideas, and fearless even in the face of death.
Links
Free audiobook of Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/st-justin-martyr-dialogue-with-trypho/
Free text of Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/fathers/view.cfm?recnum=1612
Free text of Justin Martyr’s First Apology https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/fathers/view.cfm?recnum=1610
Free text of Justin Martyr’s Second Apology https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/fathers/view.cfm?recnum=1611
A contemporary account of Justin’s martyrdom https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/fathers/view.cfm?recnum=1618
An excellent popular study of Justin Martyr https://www.amazon.com/Case-Christianity-Arguments-Religious-Judicial/dp/158979575X/
More works by the Fathers https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/fathers/
Mike Aquilina’s website https://fathersofthechurch.com
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Theme music: Gaudeamus (Introit for the Feast of All Saints), sung by Jeff Ostrowski. Courtesy of http://www.ccwatershed.org.
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35—Epiphanius of Salamis: A Passion for Pure Doctrine
34—Cyril of Jerusalem: Mystery and Mayhem
33—Ambrose of Milan: How the Church Regards the State
32—Julian, the Apostate Who Aped the Church
31—Gregory of Nyssa: Zero to Hero
30—Gregory Nazianzen: Greatness in the Passive Voice
29—Basil and the Beginning of Christian Social Thought
28—Ephrem, Symbolist
27 - Aphrahat: Parsee Sage Primary in Time
26 - Hilary of Poitiers: Exile and Understanding
Ep. 25—Eusebius: History from the Wrong Side of History
Ep. 24—Athanasius against the World
Ep. 23—Alexander’s Lagtime Stand
Ep. 22 - Anthony of the Desert: The Solitary Celebrity
Ep. 21 - Lactantius: The Fall & Rise of the Christian Cicero
Ep. 20 - Origen, Part 2: Hero, Heretic - or Hybrid?
Ep. 19 - Origen: The Most Controversial Christian Ever?
Ep. 18 - The Short, Happy Life of Cyprian of Carthage
Ep. 17 - The Long, Strange Trip of Hippolytus of Rome
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