“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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Ep. 15 - Perpetua: A Rare Female Voice from Antiquity
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Ep. 13 - Tertullian and the Theology of Sarcasm
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Ep. 12 - Minucius Felix and the Great Novel of Antiquity
Ep. 11 - Melito and the Parting of the Ways
Ep. 10 - Irenaeus of Lyons: Putting the Smack Down on Heresy
Ep. 8 - Letter to Diognetus: Intro to the Apologists
Ep. 7 - Shepherd of Hermas: Heavenly Visions & Earthly Morals
Ep. 6 - What's in a Name? Anonymous Texts from the Early Church
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Ep. 3 - Clement of Rome: The Earliest Christian Author after the Apostles
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