Library › St Macarius the Great › Fifty Spiritual Homilies

Fifty Spiritual Homilies

St Macarius the Great, tr. Mason, 1921

d1
An Allegorical Interpretation of the Vision Described in the Prophet Ezekiel
Concerning the Kingdom of Darkness, that is, of Sin, and that God Alone is Able to Take…
That the Brethren Ought to Live in Sincerity, Simplicity, Love, and Peace with Each…
Christians Ought to Accomplish Their Race in This World with Heed and Care, that They May…
A Great Difference Between Christians and the Men of This World. Those Who Have the…
Those Who Desire to Please God, Ought to Offer Their Prayers in Peace and Quietness, in…
Concerning the Loving Kindness of Christ Towards Men. The Homily Also Contains Certain…
Concerning Things Which Befall Christians at Prayer, and Concerning the Measures of…
That the Promises and Prophecies of God are Accomplished Through Manifold Trial and…
By Lowliness of Mind and Earnestness the Gifts of the Divine Grace are Preserved, But by…
That the Power of the Holy Ghost in Man’s Heart is Like Fire; and, What Things We Need,…
Concerning the State of Adam Before He Transgressed God’s Commandment, and After He Had…
XIII. What Fruit God Expects from Christians
Those Who Give Their Thoughts and Their Mind to God Do So in the Hope that the Eyes of…
This Homily Teaches at Large How the Soul Ought to Behave Herself in Holiness and…
That Spiritual Persons are Subject to Temptations and to the Adversities Which Spring…
Concerning the Spiritual Unction of Christians, and Their Glory, and that Without Christ…
Concerning the Christians’ Treasure, Which is Christ and the Holy Ghost, Who Practises…
Christians Who Desire to Make Progress and to Grow Ought to Force Themselves to Every…
Only Christ, the True Physician of the Inner Man, Can Heal the Soul, and Array It in the…
A Christian Man Has a Twofold Warfare Set Before Him, an Inward and an Outward, the…
Concerning the Twofold State of Those Who Depart Out of This Life
As Only Those Born of the Seed Royal Can Wear the Costly Royal Pearl, So Only the…
The State of Christians is Like Merchandise, and Like Leaven. As Merchants Amass Earthly…
This Homily Teaches that No Man, Without Being Strengthened by Christ, is Capable of…
Concerning the Worth and Value, the Power and Efficiency of the Immortal Soul, and How It…
This Homily, Like the Foregoing, Describes at Length the Dignity and Status of a…
This Homily Describes and Bewails the Calamity of the Soul, that by Reason of Sin the…
God Works the Dispensations of Grace Upon Mankind After a Twofold Manner, Intending to…
The Soul that is to Enter into the Kingdom of God Must Be Born of the Holy Ghost; and How…
The Believer Ought to Be Changed in Mind, and Gather Up All His Thoughts in God; for in…
The Glory of Christians Abides Even Now in Their Souls, and Will Be Manifested at the…
XXXIII. We Ought to Pray to God Continually and with Attention
Concerning the Glory of Christians Which Shall Be Vouchsafed to Their Bodies at the…
XXXV. Concerning the Old Sabbath and the New
Concerning the Twofold Resurrection of Souls and Bodies, and of the Divers Glory of the…
XXXVII. Concerning Paradise and the Spiritual Law
Great Exactness and Intelligence is Required to Discern True Christians, and Who These are
XXXIX. Why the Holy Scripture Was Given to Us by God
That All the Virtues and All the Vices are Bound Each to Other, and Like a Chain are…
Very Deep are the Secret Chambers of the Soul, Which Grows in Part with the Growth of…
Not External Things, But Internal, Advance or Injure a Man, Namely the Spirit of Grace or…
Concerning the Progress of a Christian Man, the Whole Power of Which Depends Upon the…
What Change and Renewal is Wrought in a Christian Man by Christ, Who Has Healed the…
No Art, No Wealth of This World, But Only the Appearing of Christ, is Able to Cure Man,…
Concerning the Difference Between God’s Word and the Worlds, and Between God’s Children…
An Allegorical Interpretation of the Things Done Under the Law
XLVIII. Concerning Perfect Faith in God
It is Not Enough to Have Got Rid of the Pleasure of This World, Unless a Man Gets the…
L. It is God that Works Wonders Through His Saints