Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers, Volumes 1-4
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
This classic four-volume set presents sermons by the great Church Fathers and Doctors of the Church for each Sunday and Feast Day. Editor and translator Father M.F. Toal brings together several sermons for every celebration from both early Eastern and Western Fathers of the church, including Ambrose, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria, Leo the Great, Ephraem, Augustine, and more. Each sermon is followed by a relevant passage of the Catena Aurea (Golden Chain) of St. Thomas Aquinas.
A superb series for preaching, spiritual reading, and meditation, Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers also contains the Gospel reading for each Sunday and Feast Day (of the pre-Vatican II Calendar), and parallel Gospel texts. The four volumes correspond with the four liturgical divisions of the year. Each volume also includes a table of sermons that correspond with the Vatican II Lectionary. This series offers the ideal way to enter the mind of the early Church Fathers and the spirit of Sacred Scripture.
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Looking for more from the Church Fathers? You may also like the Ancient Christian Writers Bundle (66 vols.).
Key Features
- Collects selected sermons of the Church Fathers and Doctors of the Church
- Connects each Gospel reading with the relevant passage of the Catena Aurea
- Includes a table of sermons that correspond with the Vatican II Lectionary
Contributors
You’ll find sermons from:
- St. Ambrose
- St. Augustine
- St. Ephraem the Syrian
- St. Gregory the Great
- St. John Chrysostom
- St. Basil the Great
- St. Peter Chrysologos
- Origen
- St. John Damascene
- Leo the Great
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- ... and many more!
Contents
There are four print volumes, downloaded as one digital resource. Below is listed a small portion of the table of contents for Volume 4, as a sample.
- Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
- St. Ephraim the Syrian: Prayer for the Future Life
- St. Ephraim the Syrian: Antichrist and the End and Consummation
- St. John Chrysostom: On the Consolation of Death: Second Sermon
- St. Augustine: Two Meditative Discourses on the Resurrection of the Dead; First Sermon
- St. Augustine: The Resurrection of the Dead; Second Sermon
- St. Augustine: The Pilgrimage of this Life
- Three Prayers
- St. Ephraim: Prayer for the Judgement
- Traditional: Prayer for the Beginning of the Day (Golden Treasury of Morn)
- Traditional: Prayer for Sunday Morning
- Feast of the Assumption B.V.M.
- St. Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople: In Praise of the Holy and Venerable Falling-Asleep of the Most Holy Lady Mother of God Mary ever Virgin
- St. John Damascene: Oration on the Glorious Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God the Ever-Virgin Mary
- St. Lomman, Abbot: The Praises of Mary
- Feast of Christ the King
- St. Augustine: The King of Israel
- St. Augustine: Christ, King and Priest
- St. Leo the Great: Christ Reigns in the Mystical Body
- Feast of All Saints
- St. Augustine: On the Eight Sentences of the Beatitudes
- St. Leo the Great: On the Steps of the Ascent to Blessedness
Product Details
- Title: Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers, Volumes 1-4
- Editor: M.F. Toal
- Publisher: Ignatius
- Publication Date: 2000
- Pages: 1,844
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Sermons
- Topic: Preaching Resources, Sermons
About M.F. Toal
M.F. Toal, DD, was a Roman Catholic priest, editor, and translator. He served as priest-in-charge of St. Joseph’s parish in Burra, Australia—leaving in 1949 to accept an appointment as professor of philosophy at Major Seminary in Adelaide. He is best known for translating and editing Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers.
Sample Pages from the Print Edition
Looking for more from the Church Fathers? You may also like the Ancient Christian Writers Bundle (66 vols.).
- Collects selected sermons of the Church Fathers and Doctors of the Church
- Connects each Gospel reading with the relevant passage of the Catena Aurea
- Includes a table of sermons that correspond with the Vatican II Lectionary
There are four print volumes, downloaded as one digital resource. Below is listed a small portion of the table of contents for Volume 4, as a sample.
- Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
- St. Ephraim the Syrian: Prayer for the Future Life
- St. Ephraim the Syrian: Antichrist and the End and Consummation
- St. John Chrysostom: On the Consolation of Death: Second Sermon
- St. Augustine: Two Meditative Discourses on the Resurrection of the Dead; First Sermon
- St. Augustine: The Resurrection of the Dead; Second Sermon
- St. Augustine: The Pilgrimage of this Life
- Three Prayers
- St. Ephraim: Prayer for the Judgement
- Traditional: Prayer for the Beginning of the Day (Golden Treasury of Morn)
- Traditional: Prayer for Sunday Morning
- Feast of the Assumption B.V.M.
- St. Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople: In Praise of the Holy and Venerable Falling-Asleep of the Most Holy Lady Mother of God Mary ever Virgin
- St. John Damascene: Oration on the Glorious Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God the Ever-Virgin Mary
- St. Lomman, Abbot: The Praises of Mary
- Feast of Christ the King
- St. Augustine: The King of Israel
- St. Augustine: Christ, King and Priest
- St. Leo the Great: Christ Reigns in the Mystical Body
- Feast of All Saints
- St. Augustine: On the Eight Sentences of the Beatitudes
- St. Leo the Great: On the Steps of the Ascent to Blessedness
Top Highlights
“The boy who had this food was perhaps the Jewish people, who, with a boy’s understanding, bore these things, and did not partake of them. For those things which they carried, being sealed, burdened them; but opened, nourished them.” (Volume 2, Page 108)
“Grace is poured out, which faith receives. And as from a fountain some draw a little water in little vessels, and others draw more in bigger vessels, the fountain not distinguishing between the one vessel and the other, since it is the vessels, not the fountain, that measures the water, and each draws according to his measure; and as the splendour of light enters to a greater or less degree according to the dimensions of the window, so is grace received according to the measure of our desire.” (Volume 1, Page 408)
“What is the meaning of all these people, he asks? They tell him that Jesus of Nazareth is passing by. O wondrous event! He is told one thing, and cries out another. He hears them saying it is Jesus of Nazareth, but he cries out, not Jesus of Nazareth, but Jesus Son of David. They who could see made answer from what was known by common report, but the blind man makes known what he had learned from Truth Itself; for he cries out: Jesus Son of David, have mercy on me.” (Volume 1, Page 415)
“A farmer would be chided who would sow seed among thorns, and upon rock, and upon the way side. For it is not possible for rock to become earth, or for a road to cease to be a road, or for thorns to cease to be thorns. But it is otherwise with reasoning beings. For here it is possible for rock to be changed into good earth, and for a way to cease to be trodden on, and for thorns to be rooted out.” (Volume 1, Page 390)
You’ll find sermons from:
