Pastoral Sermons and Occasional SermonsThe highly esteemed Catholic convert, writer and apologist Ronald Knox, a master of the English language, was well regarded for his gifts both of writing and preaching. This volume combines both skills as it is a collection of his homilies on all the important themes of the spiritual and moral life, and on his favorite saints, men and women of history who were "inflamed with the love of Christ". In his always descriptive, profound and witty style, Knox covers a very wide variety of pastoral themes for Christian living and growth in spiritual perfection. Themes such as "The Fatherhood of God", "The Sermon on the Mount", "The Gifts of God", "The Triumph of Suffering", "The Divine Sacrifice", and dozens more. In his "occasional" sermons on saints and Christian heroes, he shows how these heroes of history struggled with many of the same spiritual battles that modern believers encounter daily, and overcame them with faith, courage, character and virtue. These are the shining witnesses of the truth and charity we all seek to emulate. |
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Contents
Editors Note | 20 |
The Kingdom of | 27 |
The Gifts of | 37 |
Our Deliverance | 46 |
THE TEMPTATIONS OF CHRIST | 53 |
The High Mountain | 63 |
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT | 69 |
Angry? | 78 |
St Paul on the Mystical Body | 586 |
St Paul on the Risen Life of the Christian | 594 |
OCCASIONAL SERMONS | 603 |
Introduction | 605 |
SAINTS | 613 |
Saints Peter and Paul | 615 |
St Cecilia | 618 |
St George | 623 |
Marriage Unmarred | 86 |
In Cruce Salus | 93 |
Parable | 99 |
The Incarnation | 106 |
The Church and the World | 112 |
The Church a Visible Institution | 120 |
The Responsibility of | 127 |
The Patience of | 133 |
Grace and Good Works | 158 |
Inequality of Merit | 164 |
Equality of Reward | 171 |
THE HARVEST OF THE CROSS | 179 |
The Wayside | 181 |
Stony Ground | 187 |
Among Thorns | 193 |
Thirtyfold | 199 |
Sixtyfold and a Hundredfold | 206 |
THE CROSS OF CHRIST | 215 |
The Travesty of Truth | 217 |
The Charm of Our Obscurity | 221 |
Joy in Sorrow | 224 |
The Wealth of Our Poverty | 228 |
The Triumph of Suffering | 232 |
Undying Death | 235 |
THE EUCHARIST | 241 |
The Window in the Wall | 243 |
The City of Peace | 247 |
Hired Servants | 252 |
Where God Lives | 257 |
Giving of Thanks | 263 |
As Your Servant | 268 |
The Gleaner | 272 |
Peace in Ourselves | 278 |
The Mass and the Ritual | 282 |
The Best Man | 287 |
SelfExamination | 292 |
The Thing That Matters | 298 |
Real Bread | 303 |
This Mass and the Mass | 308 |
The Pattern of His Death | 313 |
The Challenge | 318 |
A Better Country | 322 |
Jesus My Friend | 327 |
First and Last Communions | 332 |
Pity for the Multitude | 336 |
One Body | 341 |
Bread and Wine | 346 |
Prope Est Verbum | 352 |
Novum Pascha Nova Legis | 358 |
The Great Supper | 363 |
A Priest for Ever | 368 |
Words of Life | 374 |
The Hidden God | 379 |
The Mirror of Conscience | 384 |
Bread from Heaven | 390 |
The Divine Sacrifice | 395 |
FEASTS AND SEASONS OF THE YEAR | 401 |
Advent | 403 |
The Crowded Inn | 407 |
The Birth of Our Lord | 411 |
Ostende | 416 |
The Shepherds at the Crib | 419 |
The Effect of Christmas | 422 |
The Divine Name | 427 |
The Agony of Our Lord | 431 |
The Trial | 438 |
Holy Saturday | 443 |
The Guarded Tomb | 446 |
The Risen Christ | 453 |
The Cornerstone | 457 |
The Triumph of Life | 460 |
Belief | 463 |
The Ascension | 467 |
Pentecost | 471 |
The Message of the Cenacle | 475 |
The Birth of the Church | 480 |
The Heart of Christ | 485 |
The Fire of Love | 488 |
Saints Peter and Paul | 495 |
The Fisherman | 498 |
I | 504 |
II | 508 |
Mount Carmel | 511 |
The Assumption | 517 |
Christ the King | 521 |
All Saints | 527 |
All Souls | 532 |
Probation | 536 |
Purgatory | 539 |
The Immaculate Conception | 545 |
Prayer | 549 |
ST PAULS GOSPEL | 555 |
The Pauline Approach | 557 |
St Paul and the Old Testament | 564 |
St Paul and Christs Divinity | 571 |
St Paul and Christs Humanity | 579 |
St Benedict | 628 |
St Gregory the Great | 633 |
St Edward the Confessor | 637 |
St Anselm | 645 |
St Dominic | 650 |
I | 655 |
II | 660 |
St Albert the Great | 664 |
St Thomas Aquinas | 670 |
St Joan of Arc | 675 |
St Ignatius Loyola | 679 |
I | 686 |
II | 691 |
III | 695 |
St Charles Borromeo | 700 |
St Bernadette of Lourdes | 704 |
St Thérèse of Lisieux | 712 |
Lisieux and Assisi | 717 |
THE ENGLISH MARTYRS | 723 |
I | 725 |
II | 731 |
I | 737 |
II | 745 |
The Oxford Martyrs | 750 |
The Derby Martyrs | 757 |
Blessed Edmund Campion | 761 |
I | 766 |
II | 771 |
Blessed John Southworth | 778 |
OCCASIONS | 783 |
Roger Bacon | 785 |
King Henry the Sixth | 788 |
Catholic Emancipation | 792 |
The Old Road | 800 |
Bishops in Council | 805 |
Reprobation | 811 |
Ego Sum | 817 |
Reunion | 823 |
Ruin and Resurrection | 831 |
The London Oratory | 838 |
The Coronation of George VI | 843 |
Church and State | 846 |
A National Day of Prayer | 852 |
The Religious Life | 856 |
Priesthood | 859 |
One Heart and One Soul | 866 |
The Conversions of Newman and Faber | 872 |
I | 877 |
II | 883 |
The Conversion of Faber | 889 |
The Jubilee of Campion Hall | 893 |
A London Parish | 897 |
I | 901 |
The Oxford Chaplaincy | 906 |
Father Dominic Barberi | 911 |
Heroism | 914 |
Homecoming | 919 |
The Oratorians in London | 923 |
The Holy Year | 927 |
The Centenary of St Maries | 934 |
I | 939 |
II | 943 |
I | 950 |
II | 953 |
Earthly Dwellings | 958 |
The Translation of Fr Faber | 962 |
The Bride of Christ | 967 |
St Etheldredas Restored | 970 |
Christian Charity | 975 |
On Divine Providence | 979 |
Thomas Welds Church | 985 |
Pagan and Christian | 990 |
I | 995 |
The Shepherd of His People | 1001 |
The Unity of Mankind | 1006 |
The Centenary of SS Mary and John ΙΟΙΟ | 1010 |
II | 1016 |
The Good Parishioner | 1019 |
II | 1024 |
Christian Unity and Zeal | 1029 |
What Bishops Are For | 1033 |
Shrewsbury Cathedral | 1038 |
The Road to Damascus | 1042 |
The Misfortunes of Our Neighbour | 1047 |
PANEGYRICS | 1053 |
Father Henry Harrington | 1055 |
G K Chesterton | 1059 |
Abbot Edmund Matthews O S B | 1063 |
Hilaire Belloc | 1067 |
Father Paul Nevill O S B | 1072 |
Cardinal Griffin | 1076 |
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