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Sermons 230-272B are on the Liturgical Feasts, primarily Easter, the Ascension and Pentecost.
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Sermons 20-50 are primarily on themes from the Old Testament including Psalms, Ecclesiastes and Proverbs.
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Sermons 184-229Z are on the Liturgical Seasons, primarily Christmas, Lent and Easter.
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Sermons 148-183 are on the New Testament, primarily the epistles of St. Paul.
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Sermons 1-19 follow themes inspired from readings in the Old Testament including Genesis, Exodus and the Psalms.
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This volume contains three books: Miscellany of Eighty-Three Questions, Miscellany of Questions in Response to Simplician, and Eight Questions of Dulcitius.
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Some things we only discover at night. During the daytime the stars are hidden, yet they are there. Every kind of pain is like a nightly visitor, who disturbs our peace. The thoughts and meditations in this book are an invitation to know how to receive this visitor whenever he happens to arrive.
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This volume contains three works on the Book of Genesis: On Genesis: A Refutation of the Manichees, Unfinished Literal Commentary on Genesis, and the third and longest, The Literal Meaning of Genesis. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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99 words to live by. In these few inspired words, Chiara Lubich expresses clearly the fundamental elements of her spirituality, a spirituality of unity, of communion, which has touched the lives of millions of people in every corner of the world.
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This volume presents new translations of five of Augustine’s works: The Excellence of Marriage, Holy Virginity, The Excellence of Widowhood, Adulterous Marriages, and Continence. These works discuss marriage, sexuality, procreation, and virginity (or celibacy) and their place in Christian life and salvation. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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The present volume contains ninety-four letters, the last sixty-three of the previously known letters and the thirty-one more recently discovered and edited by Johannes Divjak in the final quarter of the last century. There are eighty-one letters of which Augustine is the author. Each letter is preceded by its own introduction in which the translator offers valuable information about the persons, content, and background pertinent to the letter.
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The sixty-two letters contained in this volume were written between 414 and 422 or 423, though a number of them are virtually impossible to date with any certainty. During these years Augustine became deeply involved in the controversy on grace with Pelagius and his ally, Caelestius, both of whom had passed through North Africa shortly after the fall of Rome.
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The fifty-six letters contained in this volume were, with a few possible exceptions, written between 408 and 414. During these years the Donatist schism came to a head and was in principle healed by the Conference of Carthage in June of 411.
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The first volume of the Letters of Saint Augustine covers the period from his retreat at Cassiciacum in Italy in the fall of 386 (or the spring of 387) to the height of the Donatist controversy in 408 (or 409).
