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jerome · c. 396 · score 0.02
Restored to communion before the eyes of the whole Church, what did she do? In the day of prosperity she did not forget affliction [Sirach 11:25], and having once suffered shipwreck she refused to face the sea again. Instead of re-embarking on her old life, she sold everything she could lay her hands on — a fortune bef …
jerome · c. 396 · score 0.02
Changing one's disposition is a greater feat than changing one's wardrobe. It is harder for us to part with arrogance than with gold and gems — for even when we cast these aside, we sometimes preen ourselves on an austerity that is really just ostentation, bidding for popular applause with a poverty that is itself for …
jerome · c. 396 · score 0.02
Among the kings, do we read of any so wicked as Ahab? Yet when Ahab heard Elijah's denunciation, "he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted... and went about dejectedly" [1 Kings 21:27]. And the word of God came to Elijah: "Do you see how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself befo …
jerome · c. 396 · score 0.02
My letter urging Heliodorus to the hermit's life, written when I was a young man, she knew by heart; and whenever she gazed upon the walls of Rome she complained she was in a prison. Heedless of her sex, forgetful of her frailty, desiring only solitude, she was already in spirit where her soul longed to be. Her friends …
jerome · c. 396 · score 0.02
Those men had conquered physical force; she had mastered "spiritual wickedness" [Ephesians 6:12]. I seem to hear even now the vanguard leading the procession, and the thunder of the multitude that thronged in thousands to her funeral. Streets, porticoes, and rooftops could not contain the spectators. On that day Rome s …
jerome · c. 396 · score 0.02
Travelers hurried from Rome to take advantage of the mild coast before setting sail. What Publius once did on Malta for a single apostle and a single ship's crew [Acts 28:7], Fabiola and Pammachius did again and again for vast numbers — not only supplying the needs of the destitute but providing additional means for th …
jerome · c. 393 · score 0.01
Oceanus, I never expected that criminals just released from prison would, fresh from the experience of its filth and chains, complain about leniency shown to others. In the gospel, the landowner says to the jealous worker: "Friend, is your eye evil because I am good?" [Matthew 20:15]. God has shut up all under sin that …
jerome · c. 396 · score 0.01
When they came, they spared neither religion, nor rank, nor age; they had no pity even for wailing infants. Children were forced to die before they could be said to have begun living, and little ones, oblivious to their fate, could be seen smiling in the hands of their killers. It was generally believed the invaders we …
jerome · c. 396 · score 0.01
It cannot be that an adulterous wife must be dismissed while a debauched husband may be kept. The apostle says: "He who is joined to a harlot is one body with her" [1 Corinthians 6:16]. Therefore she who is joined to a whoremonger is likewise made one body with him. The laws of Caesar differ from the laws of Christ; Pa …
jerome · c. 396 · score 0.01
Letter 77: To Oceanus (399 AD, Bethlehem) [Jerome writes a magnificent eulogy of Fabiola, one of the most remarkable women of late Roman Christianity. The letter recounts her divorce and controversial remarriage, her dramatic public penance, her founding of the first hospital in Rome, her visit to Bethlehem, her flight …
jerome · c. 396 · score 0.01
Whatever he suffers, we may suffer too. Let us regard his wounds as our own, and all our callousness toward another's pain will dissolve before pity for ourselves. "Not with a hundred tongues or throat of bronze / could I exhaust the forms of fell disease" — which Fabiola alleviated so wonderfully that many of the heal …
jerome · c. 396 · score 0.01
How was it that the soothsayer Balaam, in prophesying the mysteries of Christ [Numbers 24:15-19], spoke more plainly of Him than almost any other prophet? I answered as best I could. Then, unrolling the scroll further, she reached the list of all the halting-places by which the people traveled from Egypt to the waters …
jerome · c. 393 · score 0.01
Let me anticipate another objection. "But Jerome," you will say, "you have always been strict. Why this sudden leniency?" Because strictness and justice are not the same thing. I am strict when the situation calls for it. But I will not condemn a man on a technicality that contradicts the plain meaning of baptism. To d …
jerome · c. 396 · score 0.01
She did not know that the rigor of the gospel forbids women all pretext for remarriage as long as their former husbands are alive — and not knowing this, though she managed to evade other assaults of the devil, she unwittingly exposed herself to a wound at this one point. 4. But why do I linger over old and forgotten m …