Homilies on the Gospels (2 vols.)
Publisher:
, 1991
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Overview
‘I have spent all my life in this monastery’, wrote Bede from his isolated Northumbrian cell, ‘applying myself entirely to the study of the Scriptures...I have made it my business, for my own benefit and that of my brothers, to make brief extracts from the works of the venerable fathers on the holy Scripture, or to add notes of my own to clarify their sense and interpretation.’ From the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, Bede’s authority as a scriptural exegete was second only to that of the Doctors of the Latin Church. His influence was enormous. Yet modern readers associate this remarkable scholar-monk only with his History of the English Church and Nation and ignore the works he saw as his chief accomplishment.
- Presents a masterpiece of monastic literature
- Illustrates Bede’s use of sources in his homiletic writings
- Provides relaxed, less condensed, and readable homilies on the Gospels
Homilies of Book I
- In Advent
- In Advent
- In Advent
- In Advent
- On the Eve of Christmas
- Christmas
- Christmas
- Christmas
- Feast of St John the Evangelist
- Feast of the Holy Innocents
- On the Octave Day of Christmas
- Epiphany
- Feast of St Benedict Biscop
- After Epiphany
- After Epiphany
- After Epiphany
- After Epiphany
- Feast of the Purification
- After Epiphany
- Chair of St Peter
- In Lent
- In Lent
- In Lent
- In Lent
- In Lent
Homilies of Book II
- In Lent
- In Lent
- Palm Sunday
- Holy Week
- Holy Thursday
- Holy Saturday
- The Easter Vigil
- Easter
- After Easter
- After Easter
- After Easter
- After Easter
- After Easter
- The Greater Litanies
- Ascension
- After Ascension
- Pentecost
- The Octave of Pentecost
- Vigil of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
- Nativity of St. John the Baptist
- Saints John and Paul (or St. James)
- Saints Peter and Paul
- The Beheading of John the Baptist
- Dedication of a Church
- Dedication of a Church