by Saint Caesarius of Arles translated by Sister Mary Magdeleine Mueller, O.S.F.
Catholic University of America Press, 1964 Paper: 978-0-8132-2825-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8132-1147-3 | Cloth: 978-0-8132-0047-7
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Sermon
81
On the Call of Blessed Abraham
82
On the Heifer, the Ram, and the She-goat of Three Years; Also the Turtledove and the Pigeon
83
On the Three Men Who Appeared to Blessed Abraham
84
On Abraham and His Son Isaac
85
On the Servant of Abraham Who Was Sent to Rebecca
86
On the Conception of Holy Rebecca
87
On Jacob's Ladder
88
On Blessed Jacob and Laban
89
On Jacob, His Son Joseph, and His Brothers
90
On Blessed Joseph
91
Likewise on Holy Joseph
92
Again on Holy Joseph
93
On the Blessed Patriarch Joseph
94
On What is Written: Joseph Died and the Children of Israel Increased
95
On the Birth of Moses and the Bush
96
On the Bush and the Lace of the Shoe
97
On the Three Days' Journey in the Desert
98
On the Spiritual Struggle of the Israelites and Egyptians which can be Inferred when We Read of the Chaff
99
On the Ten Plagues
100
St. Augustine on the Ten Words of the Law and the Ten Plagues
100A
On the Agreement between the Ten Plagues of Egypt and the Ten Commandments of the Law
101
On the Words: The Lord Hardened the Heart of Pharao
102
On the Manna and the Bitter Water
103
On Raphidim, Amalec, and the Rock Struck in the Desert
104
A Comparison of the Church and the Synagogue when there was a Text in Exodus about the First and Later Tablets
105
On Spiritual Blessings
106
On What the Lord Said to Moses: Send Men to Reconnoiter the Land
107
On the Spies and the Cluster of Grapes
108
On the Twelve Scouts
109
On the Spies and the Forty Years Spent in the Desert
110
St. Jerome on the Censers of Core and Dathan
111
On the Rod of Aaron
112
On the Brazen Serpent and the Rod of Moses
113
St. Jerome in the Middle of Lent on Balaam and Balac
114
That the Chanaanites were Driven from the Promised Land through the Just Judgment of God
115
Josue Bids the People be Ready to Cross the Jordan; also Something Concerning Rahab the Harlot and the Destruction of Jericho
116
On Rahab the Harlot and the Two Messengers
116A
On the People of Chanaan
117
St. Ambrose, the Bishop, on Holy Gedeon
118
St. Augustine, the Bishop, on Samson
119
On Samson
120
On the Woman Who Deceived Samson
121
St. Augustine on David, Isai His Father, and the Unnatural Goliath
122
St. Augustine, Bishop, on the Plague of God
123
St. Augustine the Bishop on the Judgment of Solomon and the Two Harlots
124
St. Augustine, the Bishop, on Blessed Elias and the Widow Gathering Two Sticks of Wood
125
On Holy Elias and the Two Captains
126
On Holy Eliseus and the Spring which was Changed into Sweetness
127
On What Is Written Concerning Holy Eliseus: Go Up, Thou Bald Head
128
On Blessed Eliseus
129
On Blessed Eliseus and His Servant Giezi
130
On Eliseus and the Axe Which Fell into the Water; This Ought to be Read as Instruction on the Creed
131
On Holy Job
132
The Bishop St. Augustine on Blessed Job the Prophet and on the Verse of a Psalm: Break into Song, Sing Praise
133
On the Verse of Psalm XLIX Which Says: You Sit Speaking Against Your Brother
134
On a Section of Psalm L, that is, On the Sin of David
135
On a Verse from Psalm LXXV: Make Vows to the Lord Your God and Fulfill Them
136
Concerning What Is Written: The Sun Knows the Hour of Its Setting
137
On A Verse of Psalm CXVIII: I See That All Fulfillment Has Its Limits
138
An Admonition to the People on the Valiant Woman and the Church
139
That the Church Was Pointed Out Before the Coming of Our Lord As Well As After It
140
St. Augustine on the Words: Happy the Rich Man Who Turns Not Aside After Gain. That If a Man Finds Anything He Should Restore It to the One Who Lost It Without Delay. On the Man Who Found Two Hundred Gold Coins. That a Wolf Came to the Sheepfold and Departed
141
Another Homily on the Words: Happy the Rich Man Who Turns Not Aside After Gain, and So Forth
142
On What Is Written Concerning Our Lord and Savior: He Grew Up Like a Sapling, Like a Shoot from the Parched Earth
143
On the Repentance of the Ninivites
144
On Prayer, Repentance, and the Ninivites
145
An Admonition of St. Augustine on What Is Written: ‘Come to Terms with Thy Opponent While Thou Art with Him on the Way.’ Also on the Mote of Anger Which Is Nourished by False Suspicions and Becomes a Beam
146
On the Excerpt of the Gospel Where It Says: ‘Do Not Let Thy Left Hand Know What Thy Right Hand Is Doing’: Also on Prayer
147
An Explanation of the Lord's Prayer
148
On Prayer, On What Is Written in the Gospel According to Matthew. ‘Do Not Judge, That You May Not Be Judged,’ and So Forth
149
On the Two Paths, the One to be Desired, and the Other to be Feared
150
This Admonition Explains How We Were Cast into the Hell of this World because of the Sin of the First Man, and that We Should Not Deserve to Come to the Lower Darkness on Account of Our Sins, but Should Strive with All Our Strength to Ascend to Our Chief Country by Good Works as by Certain Steps
151
On the Earthly Sojourn of Christians, and also on the Easy Way Which Leads to Death and the Rough Road Which Leads to Life; Further on the Fact That Paradise is Our True Country Where All the Saints, Who Have Traveled Out of This World, Await Us with the Extended Arms of Charity
152
On What Is Written in the Gospel: ‘Where Two or Three Are Gathered Together for My Sake.’
153
St. Augustine on the Gospel where It Says: ‘If Thou Wilt Enter Into Life, Keep the Commandments’
154
On What Is Said in the Gospel: ‘Woe to Those Who Are with Child, or Have Infants at the Breast’
155
On the Ten Virgins
156
Likewise a Sermon on the Ten Virgins
157
On the Gospel Passage Where It Says: ‘Come, Blessed, Receive the Kingdom.’ On the Third Rogation Day
158
On What is Said in the Gospel: ‘Come, Blessed’; Also on Almsgiving
158A
A Sermon of Admonition on the Last Judgment
159
On What Is Written: ‘If Anyone Wishes to Come After Me, Let Him Take Up His Cross’
160
On What Is Written in the Gospel: ‘The Good Man from the Good Treasure of His Heart Brings Forth That Which is Good.’
160B
On What Is Written: ‘The Good Man From the Good Treasure of His Heart Brings Forth That Which Is Good’
161
On What Is Written: ‘A Certain Man Was Going Down from Jerusalem to Jericho’
162
A Beautiful Homily of St. Augustine on the Fig Tree Which Did Not Bear Fruit for Three Years; Also That the Tears of a Penitent Are Like a Field in Which Dung Is Spread; and Still Further That If Dung Is Not Put in Its Proper Place It Does Not Make a House Clean, But When It Is Put in Its Right Place It Is Proven to Produce Much Fruit
163
On the Prodigal Son and the One Who Always Remained with His Father
164
On the Rich Man and Lazarus
165
Likewise on the Rich Man and Lazarus
166
Another Sermon, This Time on What Is Written in the Gospel: ‘The Kingdom of God is Within You’; Also That We Should Decide with a Just Judgment Between the Body and the Soul; Further That We Can Never Possess Peace with God If We Murmur Against Him, and How We Possess Justice and Peace and Even Joy
167
From the Gospel According to John Where It Says That on the Third Day a Marriage Took Place at Cana of Galilee
168
On the Words of the Gospel According to John: ‘On the Third Day a Marriage Took Place,’ and So Forth
169
On the Fact That Our Lord Changed Water Into Wine
170
On the Samaritan Woman, and On Not Postponing Baptism
171
On the Pool of Siloe
172
On the Man Born Blind
173
The Bishop, Augustine, on What Is Written: ‘He Who Loves His Life, Loses It.’
174
On the Blessing of Peace, From the Gospel of John
175
On the Gospel Lesson Where the Lord Appeared to His Disciples When the Doors were Closed; Also Against Heretics Who Baptize a Second Time
176
A Homily Taken From a Work of the Bishop, St. Augustine, on the Vision of Blessed Peter, the Apostle, and Cornelius, the Centurion
177
St. Augustine on Original Sin
178
A Homily on a Thought of Peter. Also on Judgment Day, and on What the Apostle Says: ‘Laying Aside the Works of Darkness, Put on the Armor of Light.’
179
An Admonition on the Gospel Text Where it Says: ‘If a Man's Work Abides He Will Receive Reward; If His Work Burns He Will Lose His Reward’
180
On What Is Written: ‘Put Away Lying.’
181
On the Lesson of the Apostle Where It Says: ‘Making the Most of Your Time, Because the Days are Evil’; and Also: ‘You Give Coins to Buy Bread for Yourself; Forgive a Wicked Man Something, in Order That You May Buy Rest for Yourself.’
182
An Admonition of St. Augustine on the Love of Charity and Hatred of Carnal Desires; That the Kingdom of Heaven Can Be Bought, Not Only With Two Mites, But Even with Good Will; Also on the Tribulation of Grapes and Olives
183
A Homily of St. Augustine on the Peril of a Priest; Also on That Rich Man Whose Land Brought Forth Abundant Fruit, and on That Other One Who Was Clothed In Purple and Fine Linen
184
On the Martyrs, on Phylacteries, and on a Passage From the Eleventh Chapter of the Apostle's Letter to the Hebrews
185
On Harmony Between Brothers
186
An Exhortation to the People on the Words of Blessed John the Evangelist: ‘Everyone Who Believes That Jesus Is the Christ Is Born of God.’