Greetings everyone! I realized that a good pairing to my thread on the Concordantiae Caritatis would be a thread where I post translations of the Divorum Patrum, Et Doctorum Ecclesiae, Qui oratione ligata scripserunt, Paraphrases Et Meditationes In Evangelia Dominicalia : E diversis ipsorum scriptis collectae of Joachim Zehner.
I sadly don't speak Latin fluently so I'll use AI for translation, take each translation with a grain of salt.
I'll start off with the text for the next Sunday
2nd Sunday after Pentecost
Arator, De Actibus Apostolorum, Book 2, v. 1062
The clemency of Jesus,
To all in the lands who thirst for faith,
He gives a draught; He offers His holy cups and commands all to be watered by His ever-flowing word.
Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata, 8, v. 7
Take what great Wisdom has set upon the table,
and learn to feed upon various delights.
Where each part of these is a whole feast; by which each man is helped,
and from it takes the life that only faith can produce.
Idem, Epigram 81
They truly make men happy, and always blessed,
those joys born from the true and highest Good.
For the brief and perishing pleasure from the riches of the world
holds the seeds of perpetual death.
Do not be pleased to submit your spirit to empty things,
nor to burden your eager mind with pestilential foods.
Let a clean and wise heart be nourished by the fruit of virtue,
and let the love of Christ reign in our breast.
Once filled with Him, it will never be emptied;
there will be streams of an eternal fountain for the eternal soul.
Idem, Epigram 10
Just as mortal bodies lose their own life
if they cannot take in bodily food,
so souls perish if they are not nourished by the delights of reason,
lacking the bread of the eternal Word.
For what will there be to drive away dire loathing from afar,
when the mind refuses to satisfy itself even with God Himself?
Arator, De Actibus Apostolorum, Book 1, v. 580
This passage indicates that better for the simple people are the dishes of the mind than feasts poured through the limbs;
and how the richness of the heavenly Word elegantly nourishes the trained talent.
For what does the nourishment of the body profit when the soul is starving? Rather, it is fitting that when the body fasts, the soul be fed always from His mouth.
Gregory of nαzιanzus, In Parabolas 4 Evangelistarum, v. 46
Let him be excluded from the hall who does not hesitate to prefer a field, or twin oxen, or the covenant of a wedded chamber, over holy banquets.
Topic: Poetry from the Fathers for every Sunday of the year (Read 40 times)