Sermons on the New Testament
395–430
| Name and Summary | Pages |
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This sermon emphasizes that the genealogy and birth of Christ reveal profound spiritual mysteries and divine truths, particularly highlighting Christ's dual nature as both divine and human. | 46 |
This sermon explains how the Holy Trinity is revealed through the baptism of Jesus, with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit distinguished yet inseparable in their divine operations. | 23 |
This sermon emphasizes that true blessedness is rooted in purifying the heart through faith worked by love, which allows one to see God face to face in the fullness of divine Revelation. | 17 |
This sermon explains the proper way for Christians to fulfill Jesus' teachings on visible good works by emphasizing that their primary motive should be the glorification of God, not personal pride or self-glorification. | 6 |
This sermon emphasizes that human speech cannot be tamed without God's help, urging believers to seek divine assistance to control their words and temperaments. | 6 |
This sermon explains the profound significance of the Lord's Prayer, emphasizing that it is a guide for believers to pray for their own spiritual needs and transformation. | 21 |
This sermon explains that the Lord's Prayer is structured to first teach believers what to believe and then what to ask for, emphasizing the importance of faith before petition. | 14 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of prayer, faith, and living a righteous life by exploring the Lord's Prayer and its significance for believers. | 14 |
This sermon explains the significance and purpose of the Lord's Prayer, emphasizing its role in guiding believers to request God's holiness, kingdom, will, sustenance, forgiveness, and protection in their spiritual lives. | 5 |
This sermon emphasizes that treasures on earth are fleeting and ultimately meaningless, urging believers to invest in heavenly treasures through acts of mercy and charity. | 16 |
This sermon emphasizes the necessity of persistent prayer and reliance on God for true goodness and eternal life, urging believers to ask, seek, and knock with faith and humility. | 13 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of humility, faith, and proper devotion in the Christian life while warning against the dangers of idolatry and the influence of false gods. | 20 |
This sermon teaches that Christians must remain vigilant in faith during life's trials, symbolized by a storm at sea, by keeping Christ awake and present within their hearts. | 3 |
This sermon emphasizes the need for Christians to navigate the challenges of their spiritual journey with a combination of innocence and prudence, symbolized by the dove and the serpent. | 4 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of fearing God more than men, highlighting that true strength lies in reverence for the Creator rather than fear of human threats. | 9 |
This sermon reflects on the humility and greatness of John the Baptist, emphasizing his proper recognition of Christ's superiority and his role as a forerunner. | 6 |
This sermon emphasizes that true spiritual insight and salvation are revealed to the humble and those who acknowledge their own ignorance, rather than the proud and self-deceived who consider themselves wise. | 10 |
This sermon explains that Jesus praises the Father for revealing spiritual truths to humble and innocent believers rather than to those who are proud, self-sufficient, and overly disputatious about worldly knowledge. | 6 |
This sermon emphasizes that true spiritual rest and salvation are found in humbling oneself and turning to Christ, who is meek and lowly in heart, rather than seeking greatness through worldly achievements. | 5 |
This sermon explains that the yoke and burden of following Christ are truly easy and light for those who love and accept them with faith and charity. | 5 |
This sermon discusses the profound and complex nature of the sin of blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, emphasizing that it is an unforgivable sin rooted in persistent impenitence and resistance to God's grace. | 45 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of spiritual transformation, urging believers to become good trees that produce good fruit by changing their hearts and rooted desires. | 7 |
This sermon explains that the presence of both good and evil Christians within the Church is a temporary reality until the final judgment at the end of the world. | 5 |
This sermon emphasizes that a true scribe instructed by the kingdom of God must bring forth both new and old things from a prepared treasure, reflecting genuine understanding and obedience. | 6 |
This sermon emphasizes that life's trials and temptations serve as lessons in humility and faith, illustrating the importance of remaining in Christ, who is represented by the ship in the storm. | 10 |
This sermon emphasizes that faith in Christ alone provides the strength to withstand the challenges and temptations of the world, symbolized as a turbulent sea. | 9 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of humility as the key to receiving God's grace and salvation, exemplified by the faith of the Canaanite woman and the centurion. | 16 |
This sermon highlights the significance of the vision on the mount, where Christ's divine glory is revealed alongside Moses and Elias, symbolizing the Law and prophets bearing witness to Him. | 6 |
This sermon emphasizes that the divine revelation on the mountain reveals the divine Son as the fulfillment and unity of Law, Prophets, and Gospel, urging believers to listen to Christ alone. | 2 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of prayer and unwavering faith, illustrating that God already knows our needs but desires us to ask, seek, and knock to strengthen our relationship with Him and to exercise our trust. | 12 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of loving God's law and cultivating meekness to shield oneself from offenses and worldly troubles. | 16 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of addressing sins privately and with love to foster reconciliation and peace, while recognizing that some offenses may require public correction for the sake of others' fear and accountability. | 18 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of forgiving others generously, as God has forgiven us of our sins, symbolized by the number seventy times seven, representing boundless mercy. | 10 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of loving and seeking eternal life over the fleeting and often miserable nature of earthly existence. | 3 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of keeping the commandments and pursuing righteousness to enter into eternal life, urging both the rich and the poor to act with humility, generosity, and love. | 7 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of storing up heavenly treasures through almsgiving and righteous living rather than excessive attachment to earthly possessions. | 16 |
This sermon emphasizes that God both cultivates and rewards those who serve Him, illustrating His patience and generosity through the parable of the vineyard workers. | 19 |
This sermon emphasizes that Jesus Christ's miracles and passing actions serve to strengthen faith in the unseen and eternal, urging believers to cry out to Him in faith despite obstacles. | 32 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of genuine faith and true fruitfulness over superficial appearances in the Christian life. | 12 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of possessing genuine charity as the true wedding garment necessary to partake worthily in the divine feast and attain salvation. | 18 |
This sermon explores the profound mystery of Christ being both David’s Son and Lord, emphasizing that true understanding requires a purified heart achieved through a holy life filled with love, faith, and humility. | 11 |
This sermon explores the profound mystery of Christ's dual identity as both David's Son and Lord, revealing that He is fully divine and fully human. | 4 |
This sermon explains the parable of the ten virgins, emphasizing that it relates to the entire Church and Christian souls who appear outwardly faithful but are distinguished by the inner condition of charity and good works. | 13 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of actively using and managing the talents and responsibilities entrusted to us by God, warning against complacency and neglect. | 2 |
This sermon emphasizes that the miracle of the seven loaves signifies the divine work of the Holy Spirit and the perfection of the Church, illustrating spiritual nourishment and completeness. | 7 |
This sermon emphasizes that following Christ requires denying oneself and embracing humility, even through suffering, as part of the path to true salvation. | 11 |
This sermon emphasizes that individuals should live vigilantly and prepare for their own last day by leading righteous lives, as only deeds will matter at the end. | 5 |
This sermon emphasizes that Jesus Christ's miracles of raising the dead symbolize the spiritual resurrection of sinners from various states of sin and spiritual death. | 10 |
This sermon emphasizes that forgiveness of sins through Christ fosters deep love and devotion in believers, illustrating this through the story of the sinful woman who approaches Jesus and is forgiven. | 15 |
This sermon emphasizes that genuine following of Christ requires sincere humility and trust in God's grace, rather than self-reliance or superficial intentions. | 6 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of understanding and actively participating in God's harvest, which is the gathering of souls among the Jews and Gentiles through the Gospel. | 13 |
This sermon emphasizes that true worth and salvation are measured by one's inner faith and moral life, not outward appearances or worldly achievements. | 4 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of focusing on one essential spiritual pursuit—listening to and embodying God's word—above all worldly or service-oriented activities. | 7 |
This sermon emphasizes that true spiritual nourishment comes from focusing on the one essential thing: being attentive to God's word, exemplified by Mary who chose the better part at Jesus' feet. | 6 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of persistent prayer and faith, encouraging believers to ask God confidently, trusting in His readiness to give good things, especially Himself as the ultimate gift. | 15 |
This sermon emphasizes that true righteousness and cleansing come from inside the heart through faith and mercy, not merely outward rituals or tithing. | 5 |
This sermon urges believers to beware of all covetousness, emphasizing that it encompasses greed for others' goods, excessive love for one's possessions, and even the desire for worldly life. | 12 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of spiritual readiness and virtue, urging believers to gird their loins by abstaining from evil and to keep their lights burning through good works while awaiting the return of Christ. | 8 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of repentance and aligning oneself with God's Word to avoid spiritual condemnation, highlighting that the "adversary" we must agree with is our own sinful nature and opposition to God's commandments. | 6 |
This sermon emphasizes God's patience and mercy toward humanity, using the allegory of the unfruitful fig-tree and the woman in infirmity to illustrate God's ongoing grace and the need for repentance. | 7 |
This sermon emphasizes that only a few people, in comparison to the multitude, are truly saved and accounted as the wheat separated from the chaff at the end of times. | 4 |
This sermon emphasizes the spiritual invitation to come to Christ’s divine supper, highlighting that faith and love—rather than sight or sensory experience—are the true means of nourishment and salvation. | 10 |
This sermon emphasizes that true happiness and eternal reward stem from serving God and practicing charity with our earthly possessions, rather than succumbing to worldly riches. | 9 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of forgiving others as a necessary condition for receiving divine forgiveness and eternal life. | 6 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of persistent prayer rooted in genuine faith and humility, illustrating that true prayer arises from honest acknowledgment of one's sins and dependence on God's mercy. | 6 |
This sermon illustrates the profound significance of Christ's resurrection, emphasizing that His bodily wounds and scars serve as signs to heal doubts and unbelief, thereby affirming His true flesh. | 9 |
This sermon emphasizes that understanding the divine nature of Christ and God's Word exceeds human comprehension, urging believers to give themselves fully to the pursuit of spiritual truth through faith and humility. | 22 |
This sermon explains the divine nature of the Word of God, emphasizing that the Word is coeternal with the Father and is indeed God Himself, not a created being. | 4 |
This sermon emphasizes the divine mystery of the Word of God, who is always present, unchangeable, and the creator of all things, and explains that Jesus became flesh to bring salvation to mankind. | 6 |
This sermon explores the profound nature of the Word of God, emphasizing its omnipresence, divine power, and the awe-inspiring mystery of its communication to humanity. | 5 |
This sermon explains that Jesus, the Word through whom the world was made, was rejected by many, including His own people, but offers salvation to those who receive Him. | 5 |
This sermon emphasizes that Jesus’ words to Nathanael reveal His divine knowledge of all humanity’s sin and innocence, symbolized by the fig-tree, and point to His divine authority and identity as the Son of God and the King of Israel. | 8 |
This sermon emphasizes that Christ’s humility serves as the remedy for human pride, which is the root of all sin, by illustrating how Christ humbled Himself through acts like turning water into wine and enduring suffering. | 5 |
This sermon teaches that the miracles of Jesus, such as healing at the Pool of Bethesda, symbolize spiritual truths about eternal salvation and the fleeting nature of earthly life. | 4 |
This sermon emphasizes that true righteousness is fulfilled through love and charity, which complete the commandments of loving God and neighbor, rather than merely observing external laws. | 20 |
This sermon emphasizes that faith is the foundation for understanding divine mysteries, urging believers to trust in unseen truths revealed through God's creation and miracles. | 16 |
This sermon emphasizes that our ultimate hope as Christians is for eternal life beyond the present world, a divine promise that surpasses human understanding and must be received by faith. | 18 |
This sermon emphasizes that Christ and the Holy Spirit bear witness to the truth within believers, and that true spiritual victory over the flesh's lusts is achieved through walking in the Spirit. | 15 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of recognizing that the Scriptures and the Gospel testify of Christ, and that true belief requires searching the Scriptures with faith. | 10 |
This sermon emphasizes the profound spiritual significance of Christ's miracle of feeding the five thousand, illustrating how it symbolizes the fulfillment of Old Testament mysteries and the unity of divine law and love. | 8 |
This sermon emphasizes that eternal life and righteousness are gifts from God, received through faith and humility, rather than by human effort or pride. | 11 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of partaking in the Eucharist with a pure heart, urging both catechumens and the faithful to approach the sacrament reverently and rightly prepared. | 6 |
This sermon explains that Jesus's words about not going up to the feast and then actually going up are truthful because He acts according to divine timing and purpose, not deceit. | 13 |
This sermon emphasizes that true discipleship requires ongoing adherence to Christ's word, which leads to spiritual freedom and the knowledge of the truth. | 7 |
This sermon emphasizes that all humans, being spiritually blind and sinners, must rely on Christ’s divine grace and the sacrament of prayer to attain enlightenment and forgiveness. | 10 |
This sermon emphasizes that Christ's healing of the man born blind reveals God's works and calls for spiritual illumination through faith, rather than merely physical sight. | 9 |
This sermon emphasizes the deep unity between Christ as the Head of the Church and believers as His Body, urging us to remain charity-filled members who follow Christ’s example of humility and love. | 19 |
This sermon emphasizes that Jesus Christ is the sole good shepherd, and all authentic shepherds of the Church are His members who emulate His love and sacrifice. | 13 |
This sermon emphasizes that Jesus Christ and God the Father are of one substance and divine nature, a truth that must be believed first before it can be truly understood. | 7 |
This sermon emphasizes the divine nature and eternal relationship between the Father and the Son, asserting that belief in Christ is essential because He is truly God of God, born of the Father without beginning. | 6 |
This sermon emphasizes that Christ is the single true path to God, embodying the way, truth, and life, which all humans deeply desire but often fail to find due to their unrighteousness. | 5 |
This sermon emphasizes that Christ is the true way, truth, and life, guiding believers through humility and righteousness, while warning against pride and spiritual complacency. | 13 |
This sermon emphasizes that faith in Christ is the essential remedy for all human sin, with the Holy Spirit revealing the sin of unbelief as the root cause. | 7 |
This sermon explains that the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, focusing primarily on unbelief in Christ as the core sin that needs awareness and repentance. | 6 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of seeking, asking, and knocking in Jesus' name with sincere faith and love, rather than relying solely on superficial or self-reliant efforts. | 12 |
This sermon emphasizes the importance of loving Christ sincerely and faithfully fulfilling one's pastoral responsibilities, as exemplified by Peter's call to feed Christ's sheep. | 3 |
This sermon explores the renewal of Peter through Jesus' threefold question of love, illustrating how Peter's past denials contrasted with his later sincere confessions. | 3 |