The Catholic Tradition Podcast: 171 – St. Jerome’s Letters to Pals in Mourning

Dec 15, 2023

A brand new assortment of letters reveals the tender facet of St. Jerome,
as he writes to console varied buddies on the loss of life of their beloved
ones. Translator and editor David G. Bonagura, Jr., joins the
podcast to debate Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Pals in
Mourning.

Subjects embrace:

• 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 loss of life of a beloved one is a chance to provide
  ourselves extra radically to God
• Jerome’s suggestion of continence to married {couples} past
  their child-bearing years

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