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Fifty Spiritual Homilies of Saint Macarius the Egyptian

Introduction

1921 complete eCatholic2000 HTML edition; original ordered catalog membership
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The believer ought to be changed in mind, and to gather up all his thoughts in God; for in these all service of God consists
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The glory of Christians abides even now in their souls, and will be manifested at the time of resurrection, and will glorify their bodies in correspondence with their piety
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We ought to pray to God continually and with attention
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Concerning the glory of Christians, which shall be vouchsafed to their bodies at the resurrection, and they shall be enlightened, together with the soul
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Concerning the old Sabbath and the new
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Concerning the twofold resurrection of souls and bodies, and of the divers glory of the risen
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Concerning Paradise and the spiritual law
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Great exactness and intelligence is required to discern true Christians, and who these are
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Why the Holy Scripture was given to us by God
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That all the virtues and all the vices are bound each to other, and like a chain are linked one to another
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Very deep are the secret chambers of the soul, which grows in proportion with the growth of grace or of wickednesses
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Not external things, but internal, advance or injure a man, namely, the Spirit of grace or the spirit of wickedness
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Concerning the progress of a Christian man, the whole power of which depends upon the heart, as is here described in various ways
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What change and renewal is wrought in a Christian man by Christ, who has healed the afflictions and diseases of the soul
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No art, no wealth of this world, but only the appearing of Christ, is able to cure man, whose great kinship with God this Homily sets forth
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Concerning the difference between God’s word and the world’s, and between God’s children and the children of this world
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An allegorical interpretation of the things done under the Law
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Concerning perfect faith in God
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It is not enough to have got rid of the pleasures of this world, unless a man gets the blessedness of the other
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It is God that works wonders through His saints

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Fifty Spiritual Homilies of Saint Macarius the Egyptian, 1921, eCatholic2000 transcription of the original public-domain text.

Fifty Spiritual Homilies of Saint Macarius the Egyptian Fifty Spiritual Homilies of St. Macarius the Egyptian