From the first Sunday in Lent to the Sunday after the Ascension

482 Pages·1960·24.328 MB·English

by  Toal, Martin Francis

THE SUNDAY SERMONS OF
THE GREAT FATHERS
VOLUME TWO
Semper redeu11dun1 ad divi11ae revelationis Fontes; quod depositum Divinus Redemptor
concredidit authentice interpreta11dum soli Ecclesiae Magisterio.
Pope Pius XII,
Encyclical Humani Generis,
12 August 1950
THE
SUNDAY SERMONS
OF THE GREAT
FATHERS
VOLUME TWO
From the First Sunday in Lent to
the Sunday after the Ascension
TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY
M. F. TOAL, D.D.
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First published I 958
Third Printing, 1964
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CENSOR DEl'UTATUS. IMl'RlMATUR: E. MORROGH
BERl'.ARD, VIC. GEN. WEST:'\IONASTERII, nm 6A
DECEMBRIS 1957
TO
OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM
WHO KEPT ALL THBSB THINGS IN HER HEART

FOREWORD
TO THE FIRST VOLUME
THE author of the present work has had as his purpose to put into the hands of
his fellow priests material ofincomparable value, in a form easy of access, with
a view to aiding them in the sacred ministry of preaching. This apostolic
ministry is the one on which all else depends in the mission of the Church for the
salvation of souls.
A large portion of it will always consist in homilies on the Gospels of the
Sundays and Principal Feasts. Father Toal, in this first volume, has in view this
sector of the preacher's work. For the Gospel of each Sunday and Feast he has
brought together from the most reliable sources, and translated, all that he
thought to be best and most useful in the homilies and expositions of the Fathers
and of the Angel of the Schools.
Nothing more suited to his noble purpose could be conceived. The word of
God contained in Scripture, and especially in the Gospels, has been given to the
Church for the instruction of men. Sacred Tradition guided by the Spirit of
God has expounded it in the writings of the Holy Fathers and Doctors.
Father Toal has placed in the easiest possible reach of the busy priest this
treasure house of sacred lore, this quintessence of the doctrine of Tradition on
each Gospel. What he supplies may, of course, not be all that may be usefully
known in relation to it, but it is, and by long odds, the most important thing.
A sermon well prepared on the matter here supplied cannot fail to be learned,
solid, simple and effective.
What more can be said in praise of the utility of Father Toal's contribution?
We shall all be grateful to him, and his reward will indeed be great {Mt. v. 12).
MICHAEL BROWNE, O.P.
Vatican Master oft he Sacred
2,1. November, 1954 Apostolic Palace
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NOTE ON THE ARRANGEMENT OF THIS BOOK
For each Sunday or Feast Day in the book there is given the
Gospel of the Day, and after that the parallel passages from
other gospels where such passages t"xist. In every case these
are followed by an exposition of the Gospel taken from the
Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas, which in tum is followed
by a selection of sermons on the Gospel.