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Saint Caesarius of Arles: Sermons, Volumes I–III (1–238) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Administrator, theologian, and preacher, Caesarius of Arles provides preaching typical of the age on the abandonment of vices and the pursuit of virtues. In 238 sermons, he addresses aspects of the ancient life in issues of morality and dogma, drawing from the Church Fathers before him. Recognizing the great need for solid content in preaching, he learned the craft of preaching from the writings...

deep down in them, so also the Christian people should continually appeal to their priests, as the udders of holy Church, by devout questions. Thus they may acquire the food of salvation and provide for themselves the necessary nourishment of their souls. If, perchance, the priests are willing to offer it only haphazardly, and the people, occupied with too many distractions of this world, scorn to ask for it, may there not be fulfilled what was written: ‘I will send forth a famine into the land:
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