Elijah Halford’s Reviews > The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church > Status Update

There are many other things that most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the apostle Peter, to whom the Lord.. put in charge of feeding his sheep, down to the present episcopate

St. Augustine

[T]here are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet, as the teaching of the Church, transmitted in orderly succession from the apostles, and remaining in the churches to the present day, is still preserved, that alone is to be accepted as truth that differs in no respect from ecclesiastical and apostolic Tradition

-Origen

I’m not reading every section. I can trust the trinity without needing to read 50 pages of quotations on it

What do you mean St. Jerome needed more priests in his Diocese so he gagged his brother and ordained him a deacon against his will, and then after one single mass grabbed him, tied him up, and gagged him again to ordain him a priest?!! Patristic history is so awesome