Sermon on Alms
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Passing through the marketplace on his way to church one winter day, John Chrysostom saw beggars and the crippled lying in the street neglected. In response, he delivered a homily imploring his congregants to take alms and care of the poor and overlooked people of the city.
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For more works on Chrysostom, check out the John Chrysostom Collection (7 vols.).
- Discusses treatment of the beggars and the poor
- Presents an impassioned sermon, at the time improvised
- Features translation from the parallel Greek and Latin text of the Abbé Migne
John Chrysostom (347–407) was the archbishop of Constantinople and an influential early Church Father. He was known for his oratorial skills and was given the epithet chrysostom, or “golden-mouthed,” after his death.