Instructions to Catechumens and Select Homilies on the Statues

Two works from Lenten Antioch: the laver of regeneration, and a city under the fear of destruction.

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About this edition

Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347–407) was surnamed Chrysostom, the golden-mouthed, for the eloquence of his preaching. Long before he became Archbishop of Constantinople he served as a presbyter at Antioch, and the two works gathered here both come from those years and from the season of Lent.

The Instructions to Catechumens, given here complete, were addressed to those about to be baptized at Easter, unfolding the meaning of the laver of regeneration and the life it demands. The Homilies on the Statues were preached in Lent of 387, when the people of Antioch, rioting over taxes, had thrown down the statues of the Emperor Theodosius, and the whole city lay under the fear of destruction; through those weeks Chrysostom preached almost daily, until Bishop Flavian returned from the Emperor at Easter with a full pardon.

Of the twenty-one Homilies on the Statues, ten are given here: those that carry the story of the sedition from first to last, together with the most celebrated homilies of that season. This Sanctified Souls Press edition is set in the public-domain English of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, on cream paper, for reading and keeping.

Details

• Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347–407), Archbishop of Constantinople, Father and Doctor of the Church
• Instructions to Catechumens translated by T. P. Brandram; Homilies on the Statues translated by W. R. W. Stephens, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
• Both Instructions to Catechumens complete, with ten of the twenty-one Homilies on the Statues, each entire
• Sanctified Souls, Heritage Editions · Saint John Chrysostom, Book Five
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 214 pages, cream paper

Cover: Saint John Chrysostom, a Byzantine mosaic of about the eleventh century in the northern tympanum of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople. Public domain.