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; ...

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!

His sermon was grossly exaggerated by his enemies ... It is impossible to cover the entire life of St John Chrysostom in a few pages. However apart from providing a very brief outline of his life, we ...

In 438 the Emperor Theodosius II of Constantinople had John’s body returned to Constantinople and did penance for the sins of his mother Eudoxia. Chrysostom's many writings, especially homilies ...

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 ...

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 popular preacher in Syrian ...

One such woman was named Olympias in Constantinople. She was a very good friend and, in fact, the confidante of John Chrysostom, who became the Bishop of Constantinople the last few years of the ...

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: ...

The veneration of Epiphany water was first mentioned in the sermons of John Chrysostom (IV century). In Russia, on January 19, believers traditionally plunge into a consecrated ice hole cut down ...

The Gospel of John seems on the face of it a poor basis for Jewish-Christian ... D. Davies, The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount (Cambridge, 1964), pp. 275-79. 11. Cited by Martyn, History, nn. 69 ...

Saint John was surnamed Chrysostom ("Golden-mouth") because of his eloquence ... His extant works are 1,447 sermons and 240 epistles. Twenty-two teachers of the Church have written homilies of praise ...

BEHOLD a new and wondrous mystery. My ears resound to the Shepherd’s song, piping no soft melody, but chanting full forth a heavenly hymn. The Angels sing. The Archangels blend their voice in harmony.