The grace of your words illuminated the universe like a shining beacon. It amassed treasures of munificence in the world. It demonstrated the greatness of humility, teaching us by your own words; ...

With St. John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) we have the first homily per se on the Transfiguration of Christ: Homilia 56 in Matthaeum.[1] This is the first extensive treatment of the Transfiguration since ...

Saint John was surnamed Chrysostom ("Golden-mouth") because of his eloquence ... and all the Epistles of Saint Paul. His extant works are 1,447 sermons and 240 epistles. Twenty-two teachers of the ...

Is there anyone who is a devout lover of God? Let them enjoy this beautiful bright festival! Is there anyone who is a grateful servant? Let them rejoice and enter into the joy of their Lord!

Saint John Chrysostom had the warm love and deep respect of the people, and grief over his untimely death lived on in the hearts of Christians. Saint John's student, Saint Proclus, Patriarch of ...

Against her are these innumerable tricks." John Chrysostom, Homilies on Romans 24 (A.D. 391). "[I]n truth, all men know that they who are under the power of this disease [the sin of covetousness ...

The preacher of Antioch and later of Constantinople, John Chrysostom, complains in a series of eight sermons to his congregation, that "you must stop going to the Synagogue, you must not think ...

Linear, Cyclical, and Spiral? History in Fourth-Century Greek Catechists. Vox Patrum, Vol. 91, Issue. , p. 235. This book is the first major study of providence in the thought of John Chrysostom, a ...

Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation ...

Becky Walker, “‘Queen of the Virtues’: Pastoral and Political Motivations for John Chrysostom’s Exaltation of Almsgiving” (Director: Peter Martens) T. Alexander Giltner, “The Lightness of Being: ...

Whenever I participate in Eucharistic celebrations, I find it consoling to listen to a well-prepared homily. A good homily enables me to enter more deeply into the mystery of faith celebrated in the ...

John Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman. His latest book is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (Allen Lane). The world the ...