Ninety-Nine Homilies of S. Thomas Aquinas upon the Epistles and Gospels for Forty-Nine Sundays of the Christian Year
Overview
- These homilies by the great St. Thomas Aquinas are divided into the following groups:
- The Advent Homilies (9)
- The Epiphany and Ante-Lenten Homilies (16)
- The Lenten Homilies (12)
- The Easter Homilies (12)
- The Homilies from Trinity to Advent, part 1 (24)
- The Homilies from Trinity to Advent, part 2 (26)
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This product is part of The Medieval Preaching and Spirituality Collection (34 vols.).
Key Features
- Presents 99 homilies by Thomas Aquinas
- Provides insight into the Middle Ages
Praise for the Print Edition
Valuable as giving the Scholastic interpretation of many texts; valuable as showing how the Schoolmen saw our Blessed Lord as shadowed forth in type and prophecy in God’s servants of old.
—Preface
Product Details
- Title: Ninety-nine Homilies of S. Thomas Aquinas upon the Epistles and Gospels for Forty-nine Sundays of the Christian Year
- Author: Thomas Aquinas
- Translator: John M. Ashley
- Publisher: Church Press Company
- Publication Date: 1867
- Pages: 182
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Sermons
- Topic: Medieval Church
About the Author
Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 in what is now Italy. He entered the Benedictine abbey of Montecassino at the age of five to begin his studies. He was transferred to the University of Naples at the age of sixteen, where he became acquainted with the revival of Aristotle and the Order of the Dominicans. Aquinas went on to study in Cologne in 1244 and Paris in 1245. He then returned to Cologne in 1248, where he became a lecturer.
Aquinas’s career as a theologian took him all over Europe. In addition to regularly lecturing and teaching in cities throughout Europe, Aquinas participated regularly in public life and advised both kings and popes.
Thomas Aquinas died on March 7, 1274 while traveling to the Second Council of Lyons. Fifty years after his death, Pope John XXII proclaimed Aquinas a saint. The First Vatican Council declared Aquinas the “teacher of the church.” In 1879, Pope Leo XII declared the Summa Theologica the best articulation of Catholic doctrine, and Aquinas was made the patron saint of education.
Thomas Aquinas has also profoundly influenced the history of Protestantism. He wrote prolifically on the relationship between faith and reason, as well as the theological and philosophical issues which defined the Reformation.
About the Editor
John M. Ashley is the editor and translator of numerous works, including A Year with Great Preachers, Eucharistic Sermons by Great Preachers, and Origen the Preacher.
This product is part of The Medieval Preaching and Spirituality Collection (34 vols.).
- Presents 99 homilies by Thomas Aquinas
- Provides insight into the Middle Ages
Top Highlights
“‘For what hast thou designed teeth and stomach? Believe, and thou hast eaten’” (Volume 3, Page 23)
“this vineyard in which men are sent to labour is righteousness” (Volume 2, Page 22)
“mercy is the shield by which we are defended from the enemy, and truth is the power by which we overcome all things” (Volume 1, Page 4)
“peace with God: S. John 16:33, ‘In Me ye might have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation” (Volume 3, Pages 27–28)
“the going out of Christ to lead men into His vineyard was an act of infinite goodness” (Volume 2, Page 21)
Valuable as giving the Scholastic interpretation of many texts; valuable as showing how the Schoolmen saw our Blessed Lord as shadowed forth in type and prophecy in God’s servants of old.
—Preface
- Title: Ninety-nine Homilies of S. Thomas Aquinas upon the Epistles and Gospels for Forty-nine Sundays of the Christian Year
- Author: Thomas Aquinas
- Translator: John M. Ashley
- Publisher: Church Press Company
- Publication Date: 1867
- Pages: 182
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Sermons
- Topic: Medieval Church
About the Author
Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 in what is now Italy. He entered the Benedictine abbey of Montecassino at the age of five to begin his studies. He was transferred to the University of Naples at the age of sixteen, where he became acquainted with the revival of Aristotle and the Order of the Dominicans. Aquinas went on to study in Cologne in 1244 and Paris in 1245. He then returned to Cologne in 1248, where he became a lecturer.
Aquinas’s career as a theologian took him all over Europe. In addition to regularly lecturing and teaching in cities throughout Europe, Aquinas participated regularly in public life and advised both kings and popes.
Thomas Aquinas died on March 7, 1274 while traveling to the Second Council of Lyons. Fifty years after his death, Pope John XXII proclaimed Aquinas a saint. The First Vatican Council declared Aquinas the “teacher of the church.” In 1879, Pope Leo XII declared the Summa Theologica the best articulation of Catholic doctrine, and Aquinas was made the patron saint of education.
Thomas Aquinas has also profoundly influenced the history of Protestantism. He wrote prolifically on the relationship between faith and reason, as well as the theological and philosophical issues which defined the Reformation.
About the Editor
John M. Ashley is the editor and translator of numerous works, including A Year with Great Preachers, Eucharistic Sermons by Great Preachers, and Origen the Preacher.
Reviews
1 rating
Ted Janiszewski
7/5/2019
These sermons aren't actually authentic works of St. Thomas Aquinas, as claimed. Mark-Robin Hoogland, C.P. writes in Thomas Aquinas: The Academic Sermons (CUA Press, 2010) that "Note that none of the sermons in the collection Sermones dominicales et Sermones festivi (schemes or summaries of sermons, translated into English by John M. Ashley in London in 1873 and reissued in Washington in 1996) attributed to Thomas is his" (3 n. 1). That said, I imagine they're a pretty good sample of what preaching looked like in Thomas's day and age.
Allen Bingham
2/27/2015
