Sermon of St. Augustine for Saturday of Passion Week: They Think to Kill Lazarus
Homily by St. Augustine 50th Tract on John When they saw Lazarus who had been…
Sermon of St. Augustine for Saturday of Passion Week: They Think to Kill Lazarus
Homily by St. Augustine 50th Tract on John When they saw Lazarus who had been raised from the dead, and knew that the miracle which the Lord had worked was so great, spread about by so many witnesses, and so plain and manifest that it could neither be concealed nor denied, they invented an expedient;…
Sermon of St. Augustine for Friday of Passion Week: The Chief Priests and the Pharisees Took Counsel Together
Homily by St. Augustine 49th Tract on John The chief Priests and the Pharisees took counsel together, but Let us believe in Him was not one of the suggestions offered. Those lost creatures thought much more how they might hurt and undo Him, than how they might save themselves from perishing. And yet they were…
Sermon of Pope St. Gregory the Great for Thursday of Passion Week: The Repentance of St. Mary Magdalene
Homily by Pope St. Gregory the Great 33rd on the Gospels When I think of the repentance of Mary Magdalene I feel nigher to weep than to say ought. Is there indeed any man, however stony his heart, who is not somewhat moved to follow the example of her repentance by the tears of that…
Sermon of St. Augustine for Wednesday of Passion Week: Jesus Walked in the Temple
Homily by St. Augustine 42th Tract on John The Greek word Enkainia, used by the Evangelist, signifieth the Feast of the Dedication of the Temple. The derivation thereof is kainon, which is, being interpreted, new; and the Dedication of anything new is thence called Enkainia. The use of this word is still preserved among ourselves;…
Sermon of St. Augustine for Tuesday of Passion Week: He Would Not Walk in Judea
Homily by St. Augustine 28th Tract on John In this chapter of the Gospel, my brethren, our Lord Jesus Christ hath much commended Himself unto our faith, as touching His Manhood. At the same time, His words and works were alway such as to give us to believe that He is both God and Man,…
Sermon of St. Augustine for Monday of Passion Week: Trying to Take Our Lord
Homily by St. Augustine 31th Tract on John How could they take Him until such time as He willed to be taken? If, then, they could not take Him until He willed to be taken, were they sent to watch His teaching? Then said Jesus unto them Yet a little while am I with you…
Sermon of St. Augustine for Friday of the 4th Week of Lent: Lord, Behold, He Whom Thou Lovest is Sick
Homily by St. Augustine 49th Tract on John Ye remember that in our last reading we learnt how that the Lord escaped out of the hands of them which took up stones to stone Him, and went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John at first baptized. John x. 31, 39, 40- While, then, the…
Sermon of St. Augustine for Saturday of the 4th Week of Lent: I Am the Light of the World
Homily on this passage by St. Augustine 34th Tract on John I take it that these words of the Lord: “I am the Light of the world” are sufficiently clear to all men who have eyes which see that Light. At the same time, such men as have no eyes except those which are in their…