Research Guides: Patristics: Patristic Sources for Homilies

Patristic Sources for Homilies

Journey with the Fathers: Commentaries on the Sunday Gospels.
Edited by Edith Barnecut.
Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 1992-1993. 3 volumes.
For each Sunday gospel of the three-year Roman lectionary, this work presents a two-page excerpt from a patristic homily.
Christ Our Light: Patristic Readings on Gospel Themes.
Edited by Henry Ashworth.
Riverdale, MD: Exordium Books, 1981-1985. 2 volumes.
Excerpts from one or two patristic homilies on the gospel for each Sunday of the three-year Roman lectionary.
Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels Collected out of the Works of the Fathers.
By Thomas Aquinas.
Albany, NY: Preserving Christian Publications, 1993. 4 volumes in 7.
[Matthew and Mark available online: http://www.ccel.org/a/aquinas]
Saint Thomas' “Golden Chain" is a collection of patristic passages on the verses of the gospels arranged in chapter and verse order.
The Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers.
Chicago: Regnery, 1958. 4 volumes.
For each Sunday of the old Roman lectionary (pre-1969), between three and six patristic sermons are presented.