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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...

(2) I ask, you, brothers and sisters—tell me: What seems greater to you, the word of God or the Body of Christ? If you will give a true reply, you surely must say that the former is no less than the latter. Therefore, with as great anxiety as we show when Christ’s Body is ministered to us, lest nothing fall out of our hands onto the ground, with as great anxiety we should see to it that God’s word which is dispensed to us may not perish from our hearts because we are thinking or talking about something
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