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This volume presents for the first time English-language
translations of twelve sermons by St. Claude La Colombiere.
Canonized in 1992 by Pope John Paul II, Claude was a 17th-century
Jesuit priest who authenticated the visions of St. Margaret Mary
Alacoque and promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart. Like St.
Francis of Assisi, Claude had been a man of privilege, and was a
literary figure with a reputation as a master of Christian
eloquence. He died a martyr at the age of forty-one. Each sermon in
this volume addresses a different issue under the general theme of
Christian conduct. Together these sermons present the notions
central to Claude's preaching and general attitude, above all the
ideas of habituation and confidence in God. Preaching during
Claude's lifetime developed under a variety of influences, most
notably the thematic sermons of the late medieval period and the
humanistic retrieval of classical letters during the Renaissance.
Claude worked within and helped to create the stylistic conventions
of the day by drawing on scripture and the Church Fathers in an
attempt to convert his listeners. Taking a hybrid approach to his
craft, he brought a balanced use of rhetorical art into the pulpit
so as to please as well as to instruct and move his audience,
hereby promoting the development of French classicism in the second
half of the seventeenth century. In his commentary on the sermons
William O'Brien examines the dynamic vision of the human person
that emerges from St. Claude's preaching and considers what this
might mean for readers of today. While offering a
historical-literary study of his preaching, the work is located
firmly in the contemporary quest for a new unity between the
theoretical and the practical in Christianity. What results is a
book with a unique appeal. General readers interested in their own
spiritual growth, as well as scholars and students of religious
history, theology, and French literature, will find this book to be
a valuable resource.
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