THE SERMONS OF SAINT ANTONY OF PADUA

1 THE SERMONS OF SAINT ANTONY OF PADUA Translated into English by Paul Spilsburyfrom the Critical Latin Edition of the Centro Studi Antoniani, Padova, Italia (1979): CONTENTS PREFACE TO THIS TRANSLATIONABBREVIATIONS THE SUNDAY SERMONS OF ST ANTONY GENERAL PROLOGUE SEPTUAGESIMASEXAGESIMAQUINQUAGESIMAFIRST SUNDAY IN LENTSECOND SUNDAY IN LENT (A)SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT (B)THIRD SUNDAY IN LENTFOURTH SUNDAY IN LENTFIFTH SUNDAY IN LENTPALM SUNDAYEASTEROCTAVE OF EASTERSECOND SUNDAY AFTER EASTERTHIRD SUNDAY AFTER EASTERFOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTERFIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTERSIXTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTERPENTECOSTFIRST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTSECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTTHIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTFOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTFIFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTSIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTSEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTEIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTNINTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTTENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTTWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTTHIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTFOURTEENTH SUNDAY

2 AFTER PENTECOSTFIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTSIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTSEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTEIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTNINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTTWENTIETH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTTWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTTWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTTWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTTWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTFIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENTSECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENTTHIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENTFOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENTFIRST SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMASSECOND SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMASSUNDAYS AFTER THE EPIPHANY OCTAVE, AND EPILOGUE THE MARIAN SERMONS OF ST. ANTONY I. PROLOGUEII. THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARYIII.

3 THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARYIV. THE NATIVITY OF THE LORDV. THE PURIFICATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARYVI. THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY THE FESTIVAL SERMONS OF ST. ANTHONYPART ITHE NATIVITY OF THE LORDSAINT STEPHENSAINT JOHN THE EVANGELISTTHE HOLY INNOCENTSTHE CIRCUMCISION OF THE LORDPART IITHE EPIPHANY OF THE LORDTHE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAULTHE PURIFICATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARYTHE CHAIR OF SAINT PETERTHE BEGINNING OF THE FASTPART IIITHE ANNUNCIATION TO HOLY MARYTHE LORD S SUPPERTHE RESURRECTION OF THE LORDSAINT PHILIP AND SAINT JAMESTHE FINDING OF THE HOLY CROSSPART IVTHE LITANIESTHE ASCENSION OF THE LORDTHE FEAST OF PENTECOSTTHE BIRTH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTISTTHE HOLY APOSTLES PETER AND PAULAPPENDIX PREFACE TO THIS TRANSLATIONThis translation has been made from the

4 Critical Edition of the SERMONS of St ANTONY Sermones Dominicales et Festivi sancti Antonii Patavini, published by the Centro Studi Antoniani at PADUA in 1979. I have prepared it to accompany my study on the technique of concordance employed by St ANTONY in his exposition of the Scriptures (hence the word concordance and its related forms have been highlighted throughout in bold type). I have done my best to combine accuracy with readability, but I hope accuracy has prevailed when there has been any word about the footnotes and references. St ANTONY quotes other authors extensively in his work, as the footnotes to the Critical Edition show clearly.

5 However, he does not cite those authors explicitly nearly as often. I have therefore only given references in those cases where he cites someone by name, or makes it clear that he is quoting. Readers who wish to identify all the other sources must go to the Critical has been quoted from the Douai Version. ANTONY uses the Latin Vulgate, and many of his points are based upon verbal characteristics of his text. The Douai Version, though archaic, is also based on the Vulgate, and keeps close to its latinisms. I have sometimes needed to amend it, where ANTONY s own interpretation seems to require it. Where he himself paraphrases the text, I have translated more Cross Headings in bold type are taken from the table of themes referred to in St ANTONY s General Prologue, in preference to those inserted by the Editors of the Critical Edition; it seems to me that they give a better idea of how he himself sub-divided his material.

6 In the case of two SERMONS , those for the first and the third Sundays in Lent, this has meant that I have recombined material that the Editors have divided. Thus the Editorial paragraph numbers (which I have retained for convenience of cross-reference throughout the translation) begin again in the course of those well as the Sunday SERMONS , this translation includes the Marian SERMONS , (which in the Critical Edition are printed between the twelfth and thirteenth Sundays after Pentecost), and the Festival SERMONS . There is no table of themes for the Festival SERMONS ; consequently the cross-headings are those of the : St ANTONY frequently refers to the Gloss , the Glossa Ordinaria and the Glossa Interlineara.

7 Where he makes an explicit reference, I have enclosed it in quotation marks; I have not done so, however, for the many passages identified by the Editors but not explicitly noted by ANTONY . It may be assumed that the references are to the Gloss on the Scriptural text under discussion. I have only included references in the footnotes when ANTONY cites a specific author, such as Augustine, but the Editors give only a reference to the :Copyright in this translation belongs to the author, Revd. Dr. , 10 Woodside Grove, Henbury, Bristol, BS10 7RF. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON THE TRANSLATOR:Fr. Paul Spilsbury was born in Bristol, England, in 1939.

8 From 1958-1969 he was a member of the English Province of the Franciscan Friars Minor (OFM), and was ordained priest in 1965. He studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Nottingham from 1966-1971. From 1972 he was a parish priest in the Church of England, but left parish ministry in 1995. He was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy by the University of Bristol in 1999 for his research into the writings of St ANTONY of PADUA . His Doctoral dissertation is entitled "The Concordance of scripture : The homiletic and exegetical methods of St ANTONY of PADUA ". He is married, with three sons and two daughters. For a Scholarly Study of the SERMONS of St.

9 ANTONY :The Concordance of scripture :The homiletic and exegetical methods of St ANTONY of PaduaA Dissertation by the Rev. Paul Spilsbury ABBREVIATIONSI) BiblicalGen GenesisEx ExodusLev LeviticusNum NumbersDt DeuteronomyJos Joshua (Josue)Jdg JudgesRuth Ruth1(Sm)Kg I Samuel (I Kings)2(Sm)Kg II Samuel (II Kings)3(1)Kg I Kings (III Kings)4(2)Kg II Kings (IV Kings)1 Chr I Chronicles (Paralipomenon)2 Chr II Chronicles (Paralipomenon)Ez Ezra (I Esdras)Neh Nehemiah (II Esdras)Tob Tobit (Tobias)Jud JudithEsth EstherJob JobPs Psalms (Vulgate numbering)Prov ProverbsEccles EcclesiastesCant Canticles (Song of Songs) Wisd WisdomEcclus EcclesiasticusIs Isaiah (Isaias)Jer Jeremiah (Jeremias)

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