Historia Ecclesiastica

In this podcast, we will examine the necessity for the Novus Ordo to embody the Roman Rite historical tradition as well as consider 13 ways this could be done. See the ideas in this podcast in a blog post on Joy in Truth here: https://joyintruth.com/old-mass-new-m...

In this conclusion to book 1 The Reign of the Apostles, we integrate all of the Church traditions we've discussed regarding the Church of the first century into one continuous timeline. 

In this continuation of Chapter 1 book 9, we examine the oral traditions surrounding such New Testament figures as Apollos, Phoebe, Onesimus, Philemon, and more.

In this video, we look at the back story and oral traditions behind the many persons named in the Acts of the Apostles and the New Testament letters.

In this podcast, we examine the most important question on this side of Heaven: what must I do to be saved? In it, we consider the manner in which the 1st century Church found the answer to this question through the Words of Christ and the inspiration Holy Spirit, codified these teachings in Holy Scripture, and passed this teaching down unadulterated to Christians of the centuries to come.

In part 1 of this 2 part series, we examined the development of the Roman Rite Mass from the time of Jesus to the conversion of Constantine. In this video, we complete our historical examination of the development of the Traditional Latin Mass: the greatest treasure of the West.

In this first of a two part series on the history of the Roman Rite Mass, we examine the theological meaning of the ritual Jesus established during the Last Supper and how this ritual piously developed during the first three centuries in the Church of Rome, while never shaking in theological integrity from the Church's earliest days.

"The Didache (Teachings) of the 12 Apostles to the Gentiles" is the most authoritative 1st century Christian text outside of the Holy Scriptures. In this episode, we examine historical reasons to date and place the Didache to the Antiochene community of the 60s AD. Additionally, we examine the reasons to consider its teachings as the authentic teachings of the actual 12 Apostles, as well as consider what the 12 Apostles in this document have to say to God's servants in the world today.

Whatever happened to Mary Magdalene? Lazarus? Zacchaeus the Tax Collector? In this podcast, we examine the historical traditions concerning the post-ascension lives of these and many more of the men and women named in the Holy Gospels.

In this episode, we look at how the martyrdoms of each of the 12 Apostles and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary fits within the historical narrative of the first century Church.