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1. What has befallen you strongly moved me to visit you, with the double object of joining with you, who are near and dear to me, in paying all respect to the blessed dead, and of being more closely associated with you in your trouble by seeing your sorrow with my own eyes, and so being able to take counsel with you as to what is to be done. But...
My amazement at the most distressing news of the calamity which has befallen you for a long time kept me silent. I felt like a man whose ears are stunned by a loud clap of thunder. Then I somehow recovered a little from my state of speechlessness.
Following an ancient custom, which has obtained for many years, and at the same time showing you love in God, which is the fruit of the Spirit, I now, my pious friends, address this letter to you. I feel with you at once in your grief at the event which has befallen you, and in your anxiety at the matter which you have in hand. Concerning all th...
1. Oh that I had wings like a dove for then would I fly away to you, and satisfy my longing to meet you. But now it is not only wings that I want, but a whole body, for mine has suffered from long sickness, and now is quite worn away with continuous affliction.
Brothers and sisters, I am distressed to learn that the peace I hoped for in your church has been shattered again.
Ambrose, Bishop, to the faithful at Milan.
Ambrose, Bishop, to the faithful of Milan.
Tobit was a righteous man living in exile, and his story teaches us what righteousness looks like under pressure.
David is Scripture's great case study in the coexistence of greatness and sin.
I have given you many sermons, brothers and sisters, and in most of them I have tried to teach, to instruct, to...
Ambrose, continuing his discourse on the death of his brother Satyrus.
Consider the widow of Zarephath.
There are those who say the Church has no power to forgive sins committed after baptism.
The pagans call death the supreme evil.
"Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the...
The Emperor Julian [Julian "the Apostate," 361-363, who attempted to reverse the Christianization of the empire]...
Ambrose, Bishop, to the faithful of Milan — on the death of the Emperor Valentinian.
The Emperor Gratian is dead, murdered by the treachery of men who owed him loyalty [Gratian was betrayed by his own...
"Do not fret because of evildoers; do not envy those who do wrong.
You live in a city that sits at the crossroads of the empire, and every idea — good and bad — passes through Milan.
"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth" (Song of Songs 1:2).
At Pentecost we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit, and I want you to understand what that gift means for your...
Ambrose, Bishop, to the faithful — on the death of the Emperor Theodosius.
Helena, mother of Constantine, went to Jerusalem and found the cross [according to the tradition that Ambrose helped...
"The earth belongs to the Lord, and everything in it" (Psalm 24:1).
I return to the subject of penance because the Novatianists return to their attacks.
I have preached on Psalm 119 for many weeks now, and it is time to draw the threads together.
Ambrose, Bishop, to the faithful of Milan.
Ambrose, Bishop, to the faithful of Milan.
The mystery of the Trinity is the foundation of everything we believe, and I want to set it out as clearly as I can.
Limenius, Bishop of Vercellæ, having died, the see remained long vacant owing to domestic factions. St. Ambrose, therefore, as Exarch, writes to the Christians at Vercellæ, and commences by reference to the speedy and unanimous election of Eusebius, a former Bishop, and reminds them of the presence of Christ as a reason for concord.