Contents:

ST. PETER CHRYSOLOGUS
INTRODUCTION
SELECTED SERMONS
(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 Gentile and the Jews. The Allegorical Interpretation
(6) On Joy over the Call of the Gentiles 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 Shepherd
(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 In-terpreted
(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: Worldly 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 Hus-band, 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 Projedus, Bishop of Forum Cornelium
(166) The Lenten Fast
(170) Christ, Our Example in Manifold Wax; The Vocation of the Apostles; The Counsel of Poverty
APPENDIX
Letter to Eutyches

ST. VALERIAN
INTRODUCTION
HOMILIES
(1) Discipline
(2) The Narrow Way
(3) The Narrow Way
(4) Unkept Vows
(5) Insolence of the Tongue
(6) Idle Words
(7) Mercy
(8) Mercy
(9) Mercy
(10) Parasites
(11) The Attribution of All Our Good Works to God
(12) The Preservation of Peace
(13) The New Law as the Complement of the Old
(14) Humility
(15) The Excellence of Martyrdom
(16) The Excellence of Martyrdom
(17) The Excellence of Martyrdom
(18) The Martyrdom of the Mother and Her Seven Sons
(19) The Termination of Lent: A Sermon for Easter Sunday
(20) Covetousness
APPENDIX
Letter to the Monks

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