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Often appears with: prayer and worship · trust in god · treasure in heaven · the fear of death · sin, guilt, and repentance · secret prayer and fasting · repeated deception · religious persecution and toleration · religious habits for rulers · monastic burial sites · miracles and divine intervention · miracle with burial coffin
Usually: argument (3) · exhortation (3) · narrative (2) · confronting death (1) · deception discovered (1) · injustice endured (1) · temptation (1) · the fall of the great (1) · the test or trial (1) · censure (1)
“The devil put in our mind the saving of our land and our goods, let us remember that we cannot save them long. If he frighten us with exile and flying from our country, let us remember that we be born into the broad world, not to stick still in one place like a tree, and that whithersoever we go, God shall go with us.” Sir Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation · precept
Further Sermon on the Mount teachings contrast almsgiving, prayer, and fasting done publicly versus secretly, includes the Lord’s Prayer, condemns hypocrisy, and warns against divided service to God and mammon.
The sixth Chapter. Take heed to your alms. That ye give it not in the sight of men, to the intent that ye would be seen of them. Or else ye get no reward of your father in heaven. Whensoever therefore thou givest thine alms, thou shalt not make a trumpet to be blown before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues, and in the streets, for to be praised of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But wh…
Sebbi, king of the East Saxons, takes monastic habit from Bishop Waldhere, gives money to the poor, foresees his death by vision, experiences a coffin-length miracle, and is buried in the church taught by “the teacher of the Gentiles.”
considerable sum of money, to be given to the poor, reserving nothing to himself, but rather coveting to remain poor in spirit for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven. When the aforesaid sickness increased, and he perceived the day of his death to be drawing near, being a man of a royal disposition, he began to apprehend lest, when in great pain, at the approach of death, he might commit anything unworthy of his chara…
Pretending the friar’s “friend” harasses her, the lady confesses, bribes him with coins, makes him promise masses and counsel, and then repeatedly feeds the friar false complaints to keep controlling the man’s access.
such advances, and be flattered to attract his fond and assiduous regard, which to me, who am in no wise inclined to encourage it, is but a most grievous molestation." Having thus spoken, the lady bowed her head as if she were ready to weep. The holy friar was at no loss to apprehend who it was of whom she spoke; he commended her virtuous frame, firmly believing that what she said was true, and promised to take such…
Anthony advises that believers should store treasures in heaven rather than in the ground, so persecutors cannot seize them, and Vincent admits he struggles with the fear of lacking a livelihood.
and sure enough, digging it full deep in the ground, and yet have missed it when they came again and found it digged out and carried away to their hands. ANTHONY: Nay, from their hands, I think you would say. And it was no marvel. For some such have I known, too, but they have hid their goods foolishly in such place as they were well warned before that they should not. And that were they warned by him whom they wel…
The speaker advises practical spiritual preparation—fasting, prayer, almsgiving—and interprets the Turks as “tormentors” under the devil, urging trust in God rather than despair about persecution.
run on toward them in all that ever he could, though there lay by the way, to kill us for malice, both all the Turk's tormentors and all the devils. And therefore, cousin, let us well consider these things, and let us have sure hope in the help of God. And then I doubt not but what we shall be sure that, as the prophet saith, the truth of his promise shall so compass us with a shield that we shall never need to fear…