Augustine of Hippo Sermons
Sermons by Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo Sermons
Sermons by Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. Since I believe it is God's will that I should speak to you about the topic suggested by today's Scripture reading, I will, with His help, deliver to you, beloved, a sermon on the forgiveness of sins. When the Gospel was being read, you listened with great…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The Gospel lesson we have just heard teaches all of us humility, so we may see and understand where we are and where we must hasten toward. The ship carrying the disciples, tossed in the waves by a contrary wind, has deep meaning. Nor is it without signific…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The order established for your instruction requires that you first learn what to believe, and afterward what to ask for. The Apostle says, "Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13). Blessed Paul cited this testimony from the Prop…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. You have heard the holy Gospel and how the Lord Jesus, in what He said to the Pharisees, conveyed a lesson to His own disciples—that they should not think righteousness consists merely in cleansing the body. Every day, the Pharisees washed themselves in wat…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. "The three measures of meal" of which the Lord spoke represents the human race. Remember the flood: only three remained from whom the rest of humanity would be repopulated. Noah had three sons, and through them the human race was restored. That holy "woman…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. If we understand correctly what the Lord Jesus Christ said to Nathanael, it concerns not only him but all humanity. For our Lord Jesus saw the entire human race under the fig tree. In this context, the fig tree symbolizes sin. It doesn't always represent th…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The Lord said to a certain young man, "If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matthew 19:17). He didn't say, "If you want to enter into eternal life," but simply "If you want to enter into life"—establishing that true life is what will be e…
Augustine of Hippo • 410
1. We have heard our Lord, the Heavenly Master and most faithful Counselor, who both encourages us to ask and gives when we ask. We have heard Him in the Gospel urging us to ask persistently and to knock with an almost intrusive persistence. He has given us an…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. We have heard, as the Gospel was being read, the praise of our faith as manifested in humility. When the Lord Jesus promised that He would go to the centurion's house to heal his servant, the centurion answered, "I am not worthy that You should come under m…
Augustine of Hippo • 410
1. The divine lessons we've just heard warn us to build up a storehouse of virtues and to fortify the Christian heart against the offenses predicted to come—and this from the Lord's mercy. For what is a human being, as Scripture says, "that You are mindful of…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The Lord appeared to His disciples after His resurrection, as you have heard, and greeted them, saying, "Peace be with you" (Luke 24:36). This is true peace, the greeting of salvation. The very word "greeting" derives its name from "salvation." What could b…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. My lords, my brothers, and fellow bishops have honored us with their visit and brought us joy by their presence. But I don't know why they're unwilling to help me when I'm weary. I've said this to you, beloved, in their hearing, so that your hearing may in…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. As we heard when the Holy Gospel was being read, the Lord Jesus Christ invited us to eternal life by promising that we must eat His Flesh and drink His Blood. Those of you who heard these words may not all have understood them. Those who have been baptized…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The medicine for all wounds of the soul, the only atonement for human offenses, is to believe in Christ. No one can be cleansed from any sin—whether the original sin inherited from Adam (in whom all have sinned and become by nature children of wrath), or th…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. Our Lord warns us not to neglect one another's sins—not by looking for things to criticize, but by watching for what needs correction. For Jesus said that someone's eye is sharp to remove a speck from his brother's eye when he doesn't have a plank in his ow…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. With the Lord's help, I intend to address this section of the Gospel we've just heard. There's considerable difficulty here, lest truth be endangered and falsehood triumph. Not that truth can ever perish or falsehood ultimately prevail.
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. When our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was speaking at length about the coming of the Holy Spirit, He said, "He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment" (John 16:8). After saying this, He didn't move on to another subject, but gr…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
Delivered at the Table of St. Cyprian, in the presence of Count Boniface.
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. When the Holy Gospel was being read, we heard something that should immediately stir every earnest soul to seek, not to grow weary. Anyone who is not moved cannot be changed. But there is a dangerous movement, of which it is written, "Suffer not my feet to…
Augustine of Hippo • 410
1. Pay attention, beloved, to the Gospel lesson that has just sounded in our ears, while I speak a few words as God enables me. The Lord Jesus was speaking to the Jews and said to them, "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal…
