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jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
13. Again in selecting for yourself eunuchs and maids and servingmen look rather to their characters than to their good looks; for, whatever their age or sex, and even if mutilation ensures in them a compulsory chastity, you must take account of their dispositions, for these cannot be operated on save by the fear of Ch …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
The apostle too tells us that covetousness is idolatry, Ephesians 5:5 and to one who asked the Lord the question: Good Master what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? He thus replied: If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
Examine their work when it is done, find fault with its defects, and arrange how much they are to do. If you busy yourself with these numerous occupations, you will never find your days long; however late the summer sun may be in setting, a day will always seem too short on which something remains undone. By observing …
jerome · c. 393 · score 0.02
My advice: follow the practice of the church you belong to. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" — or as my teacher Ambrose put it more precisely: "When I am at Rome, I fast on Saturday; when I am at Milan, I do not. Follow the custom of whatever church you attend." You also ask about receiving the Eucharist. Should one …
jerome · c. 387 · score 0.02
To my lord bishop and dear brother John, Epiphanius sends greetings. It is fitting for men of our rank not to use our position as clergy as an occasion for pride, but to show by our conduct that we are what our title professes. Scripture warns us: "Their lots shall not profit them." What good, then, will our clerical s …
jerome · c. 377 · score 0.02
While we run the race of this world, we must not clothe ourselves in two coats -- that is, in a double faith -- or burden ourselves with leather sandals, which stand for dead works. We must not let moneybags weigh us down or lean on the staff of worldly power. We must not try to possess both Christ and the world. No: t …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
When Jesus was crowned with thorns and bore our sins and suffered for us, it was to make the roses of virginity and the lilies of chastity grow for us out of the brambles and briers which have formed the lot of women since the day when it was said to Eve, in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall …
jerome · c. 372 · score 0.01
Here where I am, I'm ignorant not just of what's happening in my homeland but of whether it still exists. Even if some venomous critic tears at me with his poisonous fangs, I won't fear the judgment of men when I have God as my judge. As someone once said: "Shatter the world to pieces if you will -- it falls upon a hea …
jerome · c. 412 · score 0.01
Weave baskets. Copy manuscripts. Tend the garden. Work is not a punishment; it is a discipline, and a discipline that keeps the imagination tethered to the real. Study. The monk who does not read is the monk who does not grow. Let the Psalter be always on your lips and the Scriptures always in your hands. As the farmer …
jerome · c. 392 · score 0.01
What impressed me most was not the grand gesture — anyone can make a dramatic sacrifice once — but the daily discipline. You fasted. You prayed. You studied. You did not merely renounce wealth; you gave it away. Together with Fabiola [a Roman noblewoman famous for her conversion and charity], you built a hospice at Por …
jerome · c. 388 · score 0.01
Furia, You beg me to write and tell you how to preserve the crown of widowhood and keep your reputation intact. My heart leaps that you wish to be, after marriage, what your mother Titiana of holy memory was throughout hers. Her prayers have been answered: she has won back in her daughter what she herself possessed in …
jerome · c. 372 · score 0.01
To Julian, Deacon of Antioch There's an old saying: liars aren't believed even when they tell the truth. And from the way you're scolding me for not writing, I can see that's been my fate with you. Should I say I wrote often, but the carriers were negligent? You'll reply: "That's the standard excuse of everyone who doe …
jerome · c. 419 · score 0.01
Sabinianus, When it repented the Lord that he had anointed Saul king over Israel, Samuel mourned for him [1 Samuel 15:35]. When Paul heard that there was fornication among the Corinthians — "such fornication as is not even named among the gentiles" [1 Corinthians 5:1] — he pleaded with tears for their repentance. If an …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001130.htm>. Contact information. The …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
2 Corinthians 11:2 She stood as a queen at his right hand, her clothing of wrought gold and her raiment of needlework. Such was the coat of many colors, that is, formed of many different virtues, which Joseph wore; and similar ones were of old the ordinary dress of king's daughters. Thereupon the bride herself rejoices …
jerome · c. 377 · score 0.01
She wore rough sackcloth instead of fine robes. She spent her nights in prayer instead of sleep. She taught her companions more by example than by instruction. Her humility was such that she who had once been mistress over many was regarded as the servant of all -- and certainly, the less she resembled an earthly mistr …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Acts 4:34-35 But Ananias and Sapphira proved timid stewards, and what is more, deceitful ones; therefore they brought on themselves condemnation. For having made a vow they offered their money to God as if it were their own and not His to whom they had vowed it; and keeping back for their own use a part of that which b …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Matthew 25:1-12 This subject of fasting opens up a wide field in which I have often wandered myself, and many writers have devoted treatises to the subject. I must refer you to these if you wish to learn the advantages of self-restraint and on the other hand the evils of over-feeding. 12. Follow the example of your Spo …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
For you have relinquished the world and besides your baptismal vow have taken a new one; you have entered into a compact with your adversary and have said: I renounce you, O devil, and your world and your pomp and your works. Observe, therefore, the treaty that you have made, and keep terms with your adversary while yo …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Who would believe it? That Proba, who of all persons of high rank and birth in the Roman world bears the most illustrious name, whose holy life and universal charity have won for her esteem even among the barbarians, who has made nothing of the regular consulships enjoyed by her three sons, Probinus, Olybrius, and Prob …
jerome · c. 418 · score 0.01
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, to his blessed lord and brother, dearly loved and longed for, fellow bishop Optatus — greetings in the Lord. Through the presbyter Saturninus I have received your letter, in which you earnestly ask me for what I do not yet have. You evidently believe that I have already received Jerome's rep …
jerome · c. 390 · score 0.01
There is a grief that faith allows. What faith forbids is despair. Let me tell you what Nepotian was. He was a soldier first — he served in the emperor's guard. But his heart was never in it. While other young officers spent their pay on women and horses, he gave his to the poor. He left the army, took holy orders, and …
jerome · c. 411 · score 0.01
I should also say something about the world outside your window, since I assume you have been watching the news. The Goths have sacked Rome. The empire is coming apart at the seams. A man named Alaric, leading an army of people we used to treat as barbarians fit only for the frontier, has walked through the gates of th …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Like him too he had with him a Cerberus, not three headed but many headed, ready to seize and rend everything within his reach. He tore betrothed daughters from their mothers' arms and sold high-born maidens in marriage to those greediest of men, the merchants of Syria. No plea of poverty induced him to spare either wa …
jerome · c. 377 · score 0.01
To Marcella Today, around nine in the morning, just as I was beginning to read through Psalm 72 with you -- the first psalm of the third book -- and to explain that its heading belonged partly to the second book and partly to the third (the previous book ending with "the prayers of David son of Jesse are ended," and th …