Augustine of Hippo Sermons
Sermons by Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo Sermons
Sermons by Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. This Canaanite woman who has just been presented to us in the Gospel reading shows us an example of humility and the way of godliness. She shows us how to rise from humility to exaltation. As it appears, she was not from the people of Israel, from whom came…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The commemoration of a holy virgin who gave her testimony to Christ and was found worthy of His testimony—who was openly put to death but invisibly crowned—reminds me to speak to you, beloved, about that exhortation the Lord has just now uttered from the Go…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. Today's Holy Gospel lesson builds us up in the duty of praying, believing, and not putting our trust in ourselves but in the Lord. What greater encouragement to prayer than the parable of the unjust judge? An unjust judge who neither feared God nor respecte…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. When the Jews were asked (as we just heard in the Gospel reading) how our Lord Jesus Christ, whom David himself called his Lord, could be David's Son, they were unable to answer. For what they saw in the Lord, that they knew. He appeared to them as the Son…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. Our Lord Jesus Christ rebuked unbelief even in His own disciples, as we just heard when the Gospel was read. When they had asked, "Why couldn't we cast it out?" He answered, "Because of your unbelief" (Matthew 17:19-20). If the apostles were unbelievers, wh…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. We read in Scripture, "The world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him" (John 1:10). What world was made through Him, and what world did not know Him? It's not the same world that was made through Him which did not know Him. What is the world…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. A great question has been raised from our recent Gospel reading—one I'm unequal to solving by my own power. But "our sufficiency is from God" (2 Corinthians 3:5), to whatever degree we're capable of receiving His help. First, consider the weight of this que…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The lesson from the Holy Gospel has presented us with a question concerning John the Baptist. May the Lord help me explain it to you, as He has explained it to us. John was commended, as you have heard, by Christ's testimony, and in such terms that "among t…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. Some people find it strange, brothers, when they hear the Lord say, "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your so…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The passage from the Holy Gospel that we've just heard gives us a sobering warning—that we should not have leaves only, with no fruit. Simply put, we shouldn't have words without deeds. How alarming! Who wouldn't fear when seeing in this passage, with the e…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The Gospel reading today reminds me to speak to you, beloved, about heavenly treasure. Our God has not—as unbelieving, greedy people suppose—commanded us to lose what we have. If we properly understand what He has taught, and believe it with devotion, and r…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The advice, brothers and sisters, which you have just heard Scripture give—to watch for the last day—should be applied by each of us to our own last day. Don't presume that the last day of the world is far away, and fall asleep regarding your own last day.…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The beginning of John's Gospel declares, "In the beginning was the Word" (John 1:1). This is what John saw, and transcending the entire creation—mountains, air, the heavens, the stars, Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, Powers, all Angels and Archangels—he…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. Concerning "the fig tree" that was given a three-year trial and bore no fruit, and "the woman who had an infirmity for eighteen years," listen to what the Lord grants me to say. The fig tree represents the human race. The three years represent three time pe…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. Our duty is to share with others the guidance we ourselves have received. The recent Gospel lesson has instructed us to "make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into eternal dwellings" (Luke 16:…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. By the Lord's blessing, I will speak to you about the lesson from the Holy Gospel that was just read. I'll use this opportunity to encourage you not to let faith sleep in your hearts against the tempests and waves of this world.
Augustine of Hippo • 418
1. What does it mean, brothers, when we hear the Lord saying, "He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me" (John 12:44)? It is good for us to believe in Christ, especially since He Himself has said what you just heard: that "He came as a…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. Those of you who were present yesterday remember my promise, which with the Lord's help I intend to fulfill today, not just for you, but also for the many others who have gathered here. This is no easy question: who are the ten virgins, of whom five are wis…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. Our Lord Jesus Christ came to humanity, went away from humanity, and will come again to humanity. Yet He was here when He came, He didn't depart when He went away, and He will come to those to whom He said, "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the…
Augustine of Hippo • 418
1. We have heard the True Master, the Divine Redeemer, the human Savior, commending to us our ransom, His own Blood. He spoke to us of His Body and Blood; He called His Body food and His Blood drink. Those who are baptized and faithful recognize this Sacrament…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. In the lesson from the Holy Gospel, the Lord has encouraged us to pray. "Ask," He says, "and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. Our preaching has always maintained, and your faith has always held, that our Lord Jesus Christ, in seeking lost humanity, was made human. Moreover, this Lord of ours, who for our sake became human, was always God with the Father and always will be—or rathe…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. Among other things, when the Holy Gospel was read, you heard what the Lord Jesus said: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life" (John 14:6). Everyone desires truth and life, but not everyone finds the way. That God is eternal Life—unchangeable, intelligi…
Augustine of Hippo • 400
1. The Gospel passage we have just read, dearly beloved, requires a pure heart to understand it. Through John's Gospel, we have understood our Lord Jesus Christ according to His divinity as the creator of the whole creation, and according to His humanity as th…
