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New PDF release: Sermons to the People: Advent, Christmas, New Year, Epiphany

By Saint Augustine of Hippo,William Griffin

ISBN-10: 0385503113

ISBN-13: 9780385503112

A marvelous new translation brings the phrases of Augustine the preacher stirringly to life!

When the good Saint Augustine used to be referred to as from his state domestic to develop into Bishop of Hippo within the fourth century, his new duties took him clear of the solitude of his writing and into the glare of the general public eye. the writer of 2 of the best works of spiritual literature, Confessions and City of God, Augustine grew to become a shepherd to the folk, inspiring and enlightening them along with his sermons. His abilities as a speaker have been as great–if now not greater–than his abilities as a author. based on his pal Possidius, “Those who learn what Augustine wrote at the divine themes do get anything out of them. yet those that observed and heard him in person–they have been those who received heaven and Earth.”

Sermons to the folk collects the homilies at the liturgical seasons of the Church Saint Augustine introduced over the process his lifetime. This photo variation comprises the 1st sermons in that huge assortment: from introduction, Christmas, New Year’s, and the Epiphany. Newly translated by way of William Griffin, they deal with undying issues, together with the issues of materialism and the highbrow problems of religion. Griffin renders the sermons with such immediacy, it really is as if he have been current whilst Augustine spoke to his flock.

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