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Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
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Unknowntranslated Bykirsopp Lake, Translated Bykirsopp Lake and Unknowntranslated By Kirsopp Lake
This short treatise was accounted by some of the Fathers as next to Holy Scripture. It was rediscovered in 1873 by a Greek Orthodox metropol…
St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle of Titus
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St. John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom was the Archbishop of Constantinople and perhaps one of the most famous preachers of the Eastern world. He would come to be …
St. John Chrysostom on 1 Timothy
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St. John Chrysostom
Timothy was one of the disciples of the Apostle Paul, who had a deep affection for him, writing, "You know the proof of him, that as a …
Bible (WEB) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit
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World English Bible
This book relates the story of Tobit, a righteous Israelite from the tribe of Naphtali. He lived in Nineveh during the time when Israel had …
Against Jovinianus
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Saint Jerome
Jovinianus, had published at Rome a treatise containing the following opinions: (1) "That a virgin is no better as such than a wife in …
Three Homilies on the Devil
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St. John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, delivered these three homilies, most likely at Antioch, about the role of demons in our life.…
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
As regards the plan of the Epistle, it has been often asserted till lately that it was supposed to be but fragmentary, a series of aphorisms…
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit (Tobias) (Version 2)
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Douay-Rheims Version (DRV) and Douay-Rheims Version
This book tells the story of Tobit (Tobias), an Israelite, living in Nineveh after the northern tribes of Israel had been deported to Assyri…
Think well on't, or, Reflections on the great truths of the Christian religion …
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Richard Challoner
Richard Challoner (1691–1781) was an English Roman Catholic bishop. He is perhaps most famous for his revision of the Douay–Rheims translati…
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
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Douay-Rheims Version
The Book of Ecclesiasticus is preceded by a prologue which professes to be the work of the Greek translator of the original Hebrew and the g…
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 1 Maccabees
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King James Version
The First Book of the Machabees is a history of the struggle of the Jewish people for religious and political liberty under the leadership o…
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 2 Maccabees
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King James Version
The Second Book of Machabees is not, as the name might suggest, a continuation of the First, but covers part of the same ground. The book pr…
St. John Chrysostom on 2 Timothy
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St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom (the golden-mouthed), the most famous preacher of his age turned his attention to 2 Timothy, giving a total of 10 sermon…
Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John
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St. Victorinus Of Pettau
This commentary is said to have been composed around 260, making it the earliest surviving commentary on Revelation. The author, St. Victori…
Catena Aurea, St. Matthew - Vol 1, Part 1
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Catena Aurea (Latin for Golden Chain) presents the commentaries of the greatest theologians (e.g. St. John Chrysostom, St. Jerome, St. A…
Catena Aurea, St. Matthew - Vol 1, Part 2
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
A catena (from Latin catena, a chain) is a form of biblical commentary, verse by verse, made up entirely of excerpts from earlier Biblical c…
The Life of St. Hilarion
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Saint Jerome
St. Hilarion (291–371 AD) was an anchorite who lived most of his life in the desert after the example of St. Anthony the Great (251–356 AD).…
The Book of Judith
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King James Version
The Book of Judith is included in the Septuagint (the Greek form of the Old Testament) and has been retained in Catholic and Orthodox Christ…
On Illustrious Men (De Viris Illustribus)
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Saint Jerome
This is a collection of 135 brief biographies by St. Jerome of his forebears and contemporaries. It is often cited as a primary source of in…
Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues - First Treatise
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Alphonsus Rodriguez
This work is based on the material which Alphonsus Rodriguez (a Spanish Jesuit priest) collected from his spiritual exhortations to his bret…