A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

by Diarmaid MacCulloch

(San Paolo fuori le Mura),

rigorist schism of Melitius of Lycopolis.56

century successor is now secularized as Paris’s Pantheon, a

I have foolishly run away, O Father, from your glory; I have squandered in evil deeds the riches you entrusted to me; therefore I offer you the words of the Prodigal: I have sinned before you, compassionate Father: take me now repentant and make me as one of your hired servants.

Summa contra Gentiles and Summa Theologiae.

‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on me’.