Sermon on Alms
Overview
Passing through the marketplace on his way to church one winter day, John Chrysostom saw beggars and the crippled lying in the street neglected. In response, he delivered a homily imploring his congregants to take alms and care of the poor and overlooked people of the city.
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- Discusses treatment of the beggars and the poor
- Presents an impassioned sermon, at the time improvised
- Features translation from the parallel Greek and Latin text of the Abbé Migne
- Title: Sermon on Alms
- Author: John Chrysostom
- Series: Studies in Social Work
- Volume: 10
- Publisher: The New York School of Philanthropy
- Print Publication Date: 1917
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 31
- Era: era:nicene
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Charity; Poor
- Resource ID: LLS:SRMALMS
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:56:07Z