PODCAzT 190 – Voices of the Fathers 05 – St. Jerome’s wide open spaces

I recently rediscovered a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, published in 1950. The preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian also worthy. The collection includes brief selections from Fathers of the Church. It occurred to me that I might offer a podcast of the readings with an English translation, comments and the Latin original.

Today we hear from St. Jerome (+420) in Letter 14 to his friend Heliodorus.  It is an impassioned plea to his friend who had left Jerome’s group of penitents, to shun the worldly and once again live an ascetic Christian life.  The Latin is gorgeous.

The last Voices of the Fathers from Egeria’s experience of Holy Thursday in ancient Jerusalem HERE