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St. Gregory of Nazianzus: Select Orations is unavailable, but you can change that!

This translation makes available nineteen orations by the fourth-century Cappadocian father Gregory of Nazianzus. Most are appearing here in English for the first time. These homilies span all the phases of Gregory’s ecclesiastical career, beginning with his service as a parish priest assisting his father, the elder Gregory, in his hometown of Nazianzus in the early 360s, to his stormy tenure as...

and do so gladly. He who does acts of mercy, says Scripture, let him do so with cheerfulness.153 The good you do has twice the value when done promptly. What is done in bad grace or under duress is both distasteful and repellent. Doing good is cause for celebration, not complaint. If you take away the yoke, says Scripture, the pointing of the finger (I take this to mean hypercritical or suspicious scrutiny), and speaking wickedness, what will be the result? What a great and wonderful thing! What
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