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St. Gregory of Nyssa: The Lord’s Prayer, The Beatitudes is unavailable, but you can change that!

These intensely practical homilies are full of examples of the moral, social, medical, and scientific life of Gregory’s time. They paint a picture of a man thoroughly conversant with human nature in general, and in the needs of his contemporaries.

such that it is shared out to all who seek after it, and yet is wholly present to each, without being diminished by those who share in it. It is true, in the distribution of earthly wealth the man who puts by for himself more than his due, wrongs those who ought to have an equal share with him; for by increasing his own one certainly diminishes the part of the person with whom one shares. Spiritual wealth, on the contrary, does the same as the sun, which communicates itself to all who seek it and
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