CONTENTS
ST. PETER CHRYSOLOGUS
INTRODUCTION
1. The Prodigal Son and His Brother: The Prodigal's Departure
2. The Son's Return to His Father
3. The Father's Welcome to the Son
4. The Elder Brother's Jealousy
5. The Two Sons as Types of the Gentiles and the Jews. The Allegorical Interpretation
6. On Joy over the Call of the Gentiles to the Faith and to Grace
11. The Fast and Temptation of Christ
20. The Calming of the Storm at Sea
22. Contempt of Earthly Goods
27. Scandal
36. The Daughter of Jairus and the Woman with the Hemorrhage as Types of the Synagogue and the Church
38. The Patient Endurance of Injuries
40. The Good Sheperd
43. Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving
44. The Counsel of the Ungodly, the Way of Sinners, and the Chair of Pestilence
47. The Parable of the Pearl and the Net Cast into the Sea
57. On the Apostle's Creed
61. On the Apostle's Creed
67. The Lord's Prayer
70. The Lord's Prayer
74. Christ's Resurrection
80. Christ Appears to the Women Returning from the Tomb
83. Christ Appears to the Eleven Disciples at Table
88. The Angel Announces the Birth of John the Baptist
93. The Conversion of Magdalen
95. The Conversion of Magdalen Allegorically Interpreted
96. The Parable of the Cockle
98. The Parable of the Grain of Mustard Seed
101. Christian Fearlessness of Death
108. Man as Both a Priest and a Sacrifice to God
109. The Whole Man, Body and Soul, as a Reasonable Sacrifice to God
111. Original Sin
112. Death through Adam; Life and Grace through Christ
114. Slaves to the Law and to Grace
115. The Abrogation of the Law in Favor of the New Covenant of Grace
116. The Law as an Occasion of Sin
117. The First Adam, and the Last Adam, Born of a Virgin
120. Two Patterns: Wordly Life and Christ's Life
122. The Rich Man and Lazarus
129. St. Cyprian, Martyr
132. The Unity of the Faithful in Prayer
133. St. Andrew the Apostle
134. St. Felicitas, Martyr
135. St. Lawrence
138. Peace
140. The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary
141. The Incarnation of Christ
145. The Birth of Christ, and Joseph's Desire to Put Mary away
146. The Birth of Christ, Joseph the Affianced Husband, and Mary the Betrothed Mother
147. The Mystery of the Incarnation
148. The Mystery of the Incarnation
149. The Birth of Christ and the Peace of Christians
152. The Slaughter of the Holy Innocents
154. St. Stephen, the First Martyr
155. The Desecration of New Year's Day by Pagan Practices
156. Epiphany and the Magi
165. On the Consecration of Projectus, Bishop of Forum Cornelium
166. The Lenten Fast
170. Christ, Our Example in Manifold Ways; The Vocation of the Apostles; The Counsel of Poverty
APPENDIX: Letter to Eutyches
ST. VALERIAN
INTRODUCTION
Homily 1: Discipline
Homily 2: The Narrow Way
Homily 3: The Narrow Way
Homily 4: Unkept Vows
Homily 5: Insolence of the Tongue
Homily 6: Idle Words
Homily 7: Mercy
Homily 8: Mercy
Homily 9: Mercy
Homily 10: Parasites
Homily 11: The Attribution of All Our Good Works to God
Homily 12: The Preservation of Peace
Homily 13: The New Law as the Complement of the Old
Homily 14: Humility
Homily 15: The Excellence of Martyrdom
Homily 16: The Excellence of Martyrdom
Homily 17: The Excellence of Martyrdom
Homily 18: The Martyrdom of the Mother and Her Seven Sons
Homily 19: The Termination of Lent: A Sermon for Easter Sunday
Homily 20: Covetousness
APPENDIX: Letter to the Monks
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