Saint Jerome (Priest and Confessor)
by VP
Posted on Sunday October 30, 2022 at 12:00AM in Quotes
Jerome (...) wrote (...) a famous letter in which he enumerated the austere duties of the sacerdotal life. Amongst many other lessons to be found in it is the following, which applies to all preachers, and which Fenelon has inserted in his third " Dialogue upon Eloquence":
"When teaching in the church do not excite the applause but rather the lamentations of the people; let the tears of your auditors be your commendation. The sermons of a priest should overflow with Holy Scripture. Be not an orator, but a sincere expounder of the mysteries of your God."
Source: Saint Jerome by Father Largent, translated by Hester Davenport 1913
