Your message in life - a sermon by Saint John Chrysostom
How do you bear witness to the Lord? (*) Your testimony to the Lord, dear one, is not as difficult as you might think, because your preaching is “not in wisdom of words, lest […]
How do you bear witness to the Lord? (*) Your testimony to the Lord, dear one, is not as difficult as you might think, because your preaching is “not in wisdom of words, lest […]
Translator’s Introduction (*) The letter in our hands, “Works and Giving,” by Saint Cyprian, Bishop of Cartagena, is an example of one of the writings of the Latin Fathers in the centuries.
Who can hurt you? No one can harm a person unless he harms that person himself (1) Saint John Golden
In your hands, my beloved, is a simple and interesting conversation, recorded by a soul that was satiated with the love of God and within which springs of boundless joy burst forth.
Introduction to Theodore the Desperate Theodore was a friend of Saints John Chrysostom and Basil in the ascetic life, but he was seduced by the beauty of a young woman.
Have you seen the power of God? Have you seen God’s love for mankind and His power, as He shook the world and His love, as He made the crumbling (shaking) world stable again?
Today we must finish the parable of Lazarus. You may think we have completed it all, but I will not take advantage of your ignorance and mislead you, and I will not stop.
The parable of Lazarus has great benefit for us, both the poor and the rich, because it teaches the former to bear his poverty with reason and composure,
I was very much moved by your beautiful sentiments when I preached the previous sermon on Lazarus. While you approved of the poor man's patience, and greatly detested the cruelty of the
Spiritual feast yesterday, although it was a feast day for the devil, you preferred to keep your spiritual feast, receiving our words with desire
Saint John Chrysostom lived, served and preached during crucial stages in the history of the Christian Church (1). Saint John was born around the year