The Catholic Culture Podcast: 171 – St. Jerome’s Letters to Friends in Mourning

Dec 15, 2023

A new collection of letters shows the tender side of St. Jerome,
as he writes to console various friends on the death of their loved
ones. Translator and editor David G. Bonagura, Jr., joins the
podcast to discuss Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Friends in
Mourning.

Topics include:

• Jerome’s Christian twist on the “consolatory epistle” genre
  practiced by many great pagan writers before him
• The network of holy friends and disciples (like St. Paula) to
  whom and about whom he writes in these letters
• Jerome’s tactics for helping someone move out of an excessively
  long mourning period
• How the death of a loved one is an opportunity to give
  ourselves more radically to God
• Jerome’s recommendation of continence to married couples beyond
  their child-bearing years

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