Dec 15, 2023
A brand new assortment of letters exhibits the tender facet of St. Jerome,
as he writes to console numerous buddies on the demise of their cherished
ones. Translator and editor David G. Bonagura, Jr., joins the
podcast to debate Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Mates in
Mourning.
Subjects embody:
- Jerome’s Christian twist on the “consolatory epistle” style
practiced by many nice pagan writers earlier than him - The community of holy buddies and disciples (like St. Paula) to
whom and about whom he writes in these letters - Jerome’s ways for serving to somebody transfer out of an excessively
lengthy mourning interval - How the demise of a cherished one is a chance to offer
ourselves extra radically to God - Jerome’s advice of continence to married {couples} past
their child-bearing years
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