December 15, 2023
A new collection of St. Jerome’s letters paint a tenderer picture of the man who wrote to comfort friends mourning the death of their loved ones, translator and editor David G. Bonagura Jr. explains in this podcast. Jerome’s Tears: A Letter to a Grieving Friend.
Topics include:
- Jerome put a Christian twist on the genre of “letters of consolation,” practiced by many great pagan writers before him.
- A network of holy friends and disciples (such as St. Paula) who indicate to whom and about whom he is writing in these letters
- Jerome’s strategy for getting out of a prolonged period of mourning
- The death of a loved one provides an opportunity to give ourselves more completely to God
- Jerome recommended abstinence for couples past childbearing age.
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