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 away -- 146. 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 -- 170. Christ, Our Example in Manifold Ways -- The Vocation of the Apostles -- The Counsel of Poverty -- APPENDIX: Letter to Eutyches -- ST. VALERIAN -- INTRODUCTION -- Homily 1: Discipline -- Homily 2: The Narrow Way -- Homily 3: The Narrow Way -- Homily 4: Unkept Vows -- Homily 5: Insolence of the Tongue -- Homily 6: Idle Words -- Homily 7: Mercy -- Homily 8: Mercy -- Homily 9: Mercy -- Homily 10: Parasites -- Homily 11: The Attribution of All Our Good Works to God -- Homily 12: The Preservation of Peace -- Homily 13: The New Law as the Complement of the Old -- Homily 14: Humility -- Homily 15: The Excellence of Martyrdom -- Homily 16: The Excellence of Martyrdom -- Homily 17: The Excellence of Martyrdom -- Homily 18: The Martyrdom of the Mother and Her Seven Sons -- Homily 19: The Termination of Lent: A Sermon for Easter Sunday -- Homily 20: Covetousness -- APPENDIX: Letter to the Monks -- INDEX.