A fitting time of year to read this:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chrysostom-Jєωs6.asp

(7) The man who fast should be properly restrained, contrite, humbled-not drunk with anger. But do you strike your fellow slaves? In Isaiah's day they quarreled and squabbled when they fasted; now when fast, they go in for excesses and the ultimate licentiousness, dancing with bare feet in the marketplace. The pretext is that they are fasting, but they act like men who are drunk. Hear how the prophet bit them to fast. "Sanctify a fast", he said. He did not say: "Make a parade of your fasting", but "call an assembly; gather together the ancients". But these Jєωs are gathering choruses of effeminates and a great rubbish heap of harlots; they drag into the ѕуηαgσgυє the whole theater, actors and all. For there is no difference between the theater and the ѕуηαgσgυє. I know that some suspect me of rashness because I said there is no difference between the theater and the ѕуηαgσgυє; but I suspect them of rashness if they do not think that this is so.

Jєωιѕн censorship has targeted Fordham University, thus, these Homilies are no longer at that site, but it appears you can find them here.

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm#Chrysostom_Against_the_Jєωs

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Jєωιѕн censorship has targeted Fordham University, thus, these Homilies are no longer at that site, but it appears you can find them here.

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm#Chrysostom_Against_the_Jєωs

The targeting was done only indirectly by the Jєωs; that is, via the weapons placed in all publishers' and authors' hands by the U.S. government's current absurd copyright laws, which effectively prevent the movement of published material into the public domain for as long as 125 years.

The translations of the homilies (published in 1979) were picked up from what was termed "a Catholic anti-Semitic site." Paul Halsall, the professor who posted the sermons and many other ancient and medieval docuмents on his forum (hosted by Fordham University), pulled them down, he wrote, at the insistence of the copyright holder, Catholic University of America. Halsall denies knowing beforehand that the translations were under copyright (I have no cause to doubt his word).

No one reading this thread or Halsall's posted materials, however, should be under any illusions: Halsall, Fordham, and Catholic University are equally contemptuous of Chrysostom and the other Fathers and of the "old," "anti-Semitic" Catholic faith that is still in need of cleansing to remove its remaining bigotry and hate. Indeed, Halsall voices his contempt in unmistakable terms: "These texts[,] to me, seem complete refutation, in and of themselves, for anyone who argues that the 'fathers' are any guide whatsoever to moral living." His primary reason for bemoaning his site's loss of the Chrysostom texts is that those who wish to read them will go to "anti-Semitic sites," from which readers will not get the kind of guided instruction in the "outdatedness" of Chrysostom and the other Fathers for hip contemporary post–Vatican II Catholics that Halsall's notes and comments provided.