On the Priesthood Contemporary Writers from the Preface

from the Preface

Wādī al-Naṭrūn

the majority of John s homilies on the saints and martyrs have been ignored

He holds an orb with the emblem of a cross

and Christian life in the teen years

On the Priesthood Contemporary Writers from the Preface[short]Writings by St. John Chrysostom, Pages: 130[ short][long] None of the Fathers of the early church is better known or loved than St John Chrysostom, and none of his works is more popular than On the Priesthood. Its stylistic brilliance demonstrates the appropriateness of St John's enduring title, "the golden mouthed." Yet the rhetorical eloquence of the work is not simply camouflage for lack of substance. As Graham Neville observes in his