ON REPENTANCE AND ALMSGIVING
Translated by
GUS GEORGE CHRISTO
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
Washington, D.C.
The Catholic University of America Press
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First Paperback Reprint 2005
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John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.
[Selections English]
On repentance and almsgiving / St. John Chrysostom: translated by Gus George Christo.
p. cm.—(Fathers of the church; v. 96)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. Repentance—Christianity—Sermons—Early works to 1800.
2. Charity—Sermons—Early works to 1800. 3. Sermons, Greek—Early works to 1800. 4. Sermons, English—Early works to 1800. I. Title. II. Series.
br65.c43e5 1998
252’.014—dc21
97-31542
ISBN-13: 978-0-8132-1450-4
ISBN-10: 0-8132-1450-5
THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
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Ludwig Schopp, Roy J. Deferrari, Bernard M. Peebles,
Hermigild Dressier, O.F.M.
For my wife, Georgia, and my daughters, Myrophora
and Chrysanthe, whose steadfast support and love
encouraged me to translate Chrysostom’s homilies
on repentance and almsgiving
1. When He Returned from the Countryside
2. On Repentance, the Melancholy of King Ahab, and Jonah the Prophet
3. Concerning Almsgiving and the Ten Virgins
5. On Fasting and the Prophet Jonah, [the Prophet] Daniel, and the Three Youths
7. On Repentance and Compunction
8. [On Repentance and the Church]
9. On Repentance and Those Who Have Forsaken the Assemblies, and about the Sacred Table and Judgment
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Christo, (Rev.) Gus. The Church’s Identity Established through Images according to St. John Chrysostom. The University of Durham, England: Ph.D. Dissertation, 1991.
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About On Repentance and AlmsgivingSt. John Chrysostom delivered nine homilies on repentance in Antioch of Syria sometime between 386 and 387. With conviction and certitude, he preached that repentance was a necessity for both the sinner and the righteous man. This volume presents Chrysostom’s homilies on repentance and includes a sermon on almsgiving that he preached in Antioch during the winter months in 387. Chrysostom’s work reveals that repentance is an indestructible pillar of the All-Holy, Universal and Immutable Church of Christ. He believed that repentance is the liturgical tool that rejuvenates sinners and admits them into the life-giving Eucharist where they experience fully and dynamically the concrete presence of God. The powers of repentance have rich biblical roots, and Chrysostom masterfully weaves his teaching with a plethora of Old and New Testament citings. From Scripture, the reader learns that repentance is never confined to the eucharistic context—it becomes a way of life for the believer. The daily applications of repentance, such as almsgiving, fasting, remorse over personal sins, humility, prayer, and attending Church, suggest that a person’s entire life has an ecclesial character. Chrysostom preached that the whole experience of a true life in Christ is repentance that culminates in metanoia—the total change and renewal from the heart and mind of sin to “the mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16). In his introduction to the homilies, Fr. Gus Christo includes a succinct biography of Chrysostom within which he sets the homilies in their chronological context. He also provides an overview of repentance and discusses the ecclesiological nature of Chrysostom’s theology. |
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