Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen

January 2 Saint of the Day

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Saint Basil is the Father of Eastern monasticism—as Saint Benedict is for western monasticism. Besides being a good pastor, Saint Basil also lead the fight against Arianism, a heresy that denied the divinity of Christ.

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Liturgy of the Hours - 2nd Reading

Two bodies, but a single spirit

From a sermon by Saint Gregory Nazianzen, bishop

Basil and I were both in Athens. We had come, like streams of a river, from the same source in our native land, had separated from each other in pursuit of learning, and were now united again as if by plan, for God so arranged it.

What was the outcome? Almost alone of those who had come to Athens to study he was exempted from the customary ceremonies of initiation for he was held in higher honor that his status as a first-year student seemed to warrant.

Such was the prelude to our friendship, the kindling of that flame that was to bind us together. In this way we began to feel affection for each other. When, in the course of time, we acknowledged our friendship and recognized that our ambition was a life of true wisdom, we became everything to each other: we shared the same lodging, the same table, the same desires, the same goal. Our love for each other grew daily warmer and deeper.

The same hope inspired us: the pursuit of learning. This is an ambition especially subject to envy. Yet between us there was no envy. On the contrary, we made capital out of our rivalry. Our rivalry consisted, not in seeking the first place for oneself but in yielding it to the other, for we each looked on the other’s success as his own.

We seemed to be two bodies with a single spirit. Though we cannot believe those who claim that “everything is contained in everything,” yet you must believe that in our case each of us was in the other and with the other.

Our single object and ambition was virtue, and a life of hope in the blessings that are to come; we wanted to withdraw from this world before we departed from it. With this end in view we ordered our lives and all our actions. We followed the guidance of God’s law and spurred each other on to virtue. If it is not too boastful to say, we found in each other a standard and rule for discerning right from wrong.

Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.

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Jan. 2, 2018 Feast Day of SS. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen! Nothing is impossible with God!!! Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, please pray for us.

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All Gregory wanted was a quiet place where he could relax with his books and a few close friends. From young adulthood he believed God was calling him to the contemplative life, and to old age he never lost that sense. But history kept dragging him into its current. First, his father (a bishop) coerced him into ordination to the priesthood. Then his closest friend, Basil the Great, pressured him to be ordained a bishop. Both times he put up little resistance, but later resented the actions as violence. Both times he eventually fled the demands of his office. Later he was persuaded to lead the Nicene faction in the capital city of the empire. Eventually he became bishop there and led the s...

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Happy #Feastday #StBasiltheGreat is responsible for the victory of the Nicene orthodoxy over Arianism, which was denounced at the Council of Constantinople. https://t.co/ClTkQWhN9E pic.twitter.com/29ru7b88Rt

— Portraits of Saints (@SaintPortraits) January 2, 2021

St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and pillars of orthodoxy, pray for us! pic.twitter.com/7dpR06VSbw

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) January 2, 2019

Ss. Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, #pray4us! @Catholic_Notes #saint #SaintsRockville @Pontifex pic.twitter.com/EWNYKk5Xku

— Vincent Spadoni (@V_Spadoni) January 2, 2017

Today is the Memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church. Seated statues of the Early Greek and Latin Fathers of the Church are found in niches along the North and South transepts of the cathedral. #TuesdayThoughts #NYC pic.twitter.com/KYxFbSl240

— StPatsNYC (@StPatsNYC) January 2, 2018

A moving orator and writer, St. Basil the Great used his talents to fight the against the dangerous Arian heresy that was pervasive during his lifetime. #Catholic https://t.co/DSaKZ18Nhn

— National Shrine (@MarysShrine) January 1, 2021

St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and pillars of orthodoxy, pray for us! pic.twitter.com/NQguUtLeim

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) January 2, 2020

Today we celebrate the feast day of Saint Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzus, Bishops and Doctors of the Church. Two Saints who in life were bound by a deep friendship and whose liturgical memory falls on the same day. pic.twitter.com/6OwFBfXd5J

— CatholicNH (@CatholicNH) January 2, 2020

"The axts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit." - Saint Basil the Great

Memorial of Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen. pic.twitter.com/1B1soL5gBV

— 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (@MCIC_Parish) January 2, 2020

Today the Church remembers Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church. Pray for us. pic.twitter.com/AOAWVdn1lA

— Archdiocese of NY (@NY_Arch) January 2, 2020

St Basil the Great & St Gregory Nazianzen were bishops, doctors of the Church and friends in the Lord pic.twitter.com/q9JcAZ5s06

— Terrence Prendergast (@archterentius) January 2, 2015

Today the Church remembers Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church. Pray for us! pic.twitter.com/0qyqRQttg3

— Archdiocese of NY (@NY_Arch) January 2, 2017

Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen

St. Basil and the Holy Spirit

Following the Council of Nicaea, there was a great deal of doctrinal confusion. One group of churchmen in the east said that while they accepted Nicaea’s definition of the divinity of Christ, they would not go beyond it to affirm the same of the Holy Spirit. After all, they pointed out, Jesus is called “God” (the New Testament Greek word is Theos) several times in the New Testament.

But the Scriptures never explicitly use the term “God” referring to the Holy Spirit. These “sola scriptura” bishops, called “pneumatomachoi” (fighters against the Spirit), therefore resisted the doctrine of the Trinity, one God in three distinct but equal persons.

St. Basil the Great responded to these heretics in the form of a short treatise that relies not on difficult philosophical concepts but on a common-sense examination of Scripture and the liturgy.

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