St Anthony's sermons

[Protos]

I’ve just started reading St Anthony of Padua’s sermons for the first time.

basilica.org/pages/ebooks/St. Anthony of Padua-The Sermons of Saint Anthony.pdf

I loved his sermon on the conversion of Paul which was the first one I picked. Have any of you read his sermons? I gather he’s famous for them. Maybe we can put our favourite parts in this thread

There were a couple of passages that stood out for me:

let us now hear about Benjamin, and how he was converted
today from a ‘son of sorrow’ into a ‘son of the right hand’…
Your right hand is your ‘outer’ hand. The right hand of the Almighty gave him [Saul] such a cuff, on his
neck as hard as a rhinoceros’s, that he made him fall to the ground. A light from heaven shone
round him at mid-day, brighter than the noon-day sun. So gentle and kind, the correction of that
right hand! To strike with a scourge of light, to rebuke with a voice of gentleness"
and

Indeed how gentle and kind God’s rebukes are to us! Amazing how we’re all like Benjamin, turned from a son of sorrow to a son of God’s right hand praise God!

• Most wretched of all men are those religious who have left all things, yet have not followed
  Christ. A double evil will fall on them. All outward comfort is absent; no inward comfort is present; if worldly men lacked the latter, at least they would have outward things…
  We have followed thee: We run in the odour of thy ointments*

This is a good reminder for me that it’s not enough to run away from this world, we must to Christ

Lokking forward to reading some more