Selected sermons : and Saint Valerian homilies / Saint Peter Chrysologus ; translated by George E. Ganss.

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CONTENTS -- ST. PETER CHRYSOLOGUS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Prodigal Son and His Brother: The Prodigal's Departure -- 2. The Son's Return to His Father -- 3. The Father's Welcome to the Son -- 4. The Elder Brother's Jealousy -- 5. The Two Sons as Types of the Gentiles and the Jews. The Allegorical Interpretation -- 6. On Joy over the Call of the Gentiles to the Faith and to Grace -- 11. The Fast and Temptation of Christ -- 20. The Calming of the Storm at Sea -- 22. Contempt of Earthly Goods -- 27. Scandal

36. The Daughter of Jairus and the Woman with the Hemorrhage as Types of the Synagogue and the Church 38. The Patient Endurance of Injuries -- 40. The Good Sheperd -- 43. Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving -- 44. The Counsel of the Ungodly, the Way of Sinners, and the Chair of Pestilence -- 47. The Parable of the Pearl and the Net Cast into the Sea -- 57. On the Apostle's Creed -- 61. On the Apostle's Creed -- 67. The Lord's Prayer -- 70. The Lord's Prayer -- 74. Christ's Resurrection -- 80. Christ Appears to the Women Returning from the Tomb

83. Christ Appears to the Eleven Disciples at Table 88. The Angel Announces the Birth of John the Baptist -- 93. The Conversion of Magdalen -- 95. The Conversion of Magdalen Allegorically Interpreted -- 96. The Parable of the Cockle -- 98. The Parable of the Grain of Mustard Seed -- 101. Christian Fearlessness of Death -- 108. Man as Both a Priest and a Sacrifice to God -- 109. The Whole Man, Body and Soul, as a Reasonable Sacrifice to God -- 111. Original Sin -- 112. Death through Adam; Life and Grace through Christ

114. Slaves to the Law and to Grace 115. The Abrogation of the Law in Favor of the New Covenant of Grace -- 116. The Law as an Occasion of Sin -- 117. The First Adam, and the Last Adam, Born of a Virgin -- 120. Two Patterns: Wordly Life and Christ's Life -- 122. The Rich Man and Lazarus -- 129. St. Cyprian, Martyr -- 132. The Unity of the Faithful in Prayer -- 133. St. Andrew the Apostle -- 134. St. Felicitas, Martyr -- 135. St. Lawrence -- 138. Peace -- 140. The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary -- 141. The Incarnation of Christ

145. The Birth of Christ, and Joseph's Desire to Put Mary away146. The Birth of Christ, Joseph the Affianced Husband, and Mary the Betrothed Mother -- 147. The Mystery of the Incarnation -- 148. The Mystery of the Incarnation -- 149. The Birth of Christ and the Peace of Christians -- 152. The Slaughter of the Holy Innocents -- 154. St. Stephen, the First Martyr -- 155. The Desecration of New Year's Day by Pagan Practices -- 156. Epiphany and the Magi -- 165. On the Consecration of Projectus, Bishop of Forum Cornelium -- 166. The Lenten Fast

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