ABBREVIATIONS

ACW	Ancient Christian Writers
BFS	Biblotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi
CtC	The Canticle of the Creatures.
DRB	The Holy Bible, New York: T. Murphy Co., 1899. This translation is commonly referred to as the Douay Rheims Bible.
FA:ED	Francis of Assisi: Early Documents.
FOTC	The Fathers of the Church. Washington: Catholic University of America Press.
LMj	The Major Legend.
LR	The Later Rule.
Test	The Testament.
NRSV	The Holy Bible. New Revised Standard Version, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. The abbreviations for the names of the books of the Bible are the abbreviations listed in the NRSV.
PG	J.P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Graeca, 1857-1866.
PL	J.P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Latina, 1841-1855.
WAE	The Works of Aristotle.
2C	The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul.

Works quoted in the sermons

….	Glossa ordinaria
Ambrose	De virginibus
	Hexaëmeron
Aristotle	De animalibus historiae
	Ethica Nichomachea
Augustine	Commmentary on the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount
	Confessions
	De natura boni
	De vera religione
	Eighty-Three Different Questions
	Enarrationes in Psalmos
	Epistolae
	On Music
	Sermo 103
	The Advantage of Believeing
	The City of God
	The Free Choice of the Will
	The Good of Marriage
	The Literal Meaning of Genesis
	The Trinity
	Tractates on the Gospel of John
Bernard	De consideratione
	De gradibus humilitatis
	In Cantica Canticorum
Bonaventure	Sermo III: De S. Francisco
	The Major Legend
	The Triple Way
Chrysologus	Sermo 129
Dionysius	De coelesti hierarchia
	De divinis nominibus
Fulgentius	De fide ad Petrum
Francis	The Canticle of the Creatures
	The Later Rule
	The Testament
Gilbertus Abbas	In Cantica
Gregory	In Evangelia Homiliae
	In septem psalmos poentitentiales
	Liber dialogorum
	Libri Moralium
	Pastoral Rule
Horace	Epistle 2
Hugo de S. Victore	De arrha animae
	Expositio in Hierarchiam coelestem S. Dionysii
Innocent III	De sacro altaris mysterio
Isidore	Libri etymologiarum
	Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum
Jerome	De nominibus hebraicis
	Epistola 54
John Damascene	De fide orthodoxa
Julian of Speyer	Officium S. Francisci
Lombard, P.	Glossae
	Libri Sententiarum
Matthew of Aquasparta	Quaestiones disputatae
	Sermons on the Blessed Virgin Mary
Pseudo-Augustine	sermo 289
Pseudo-Bernard	De modo bene vivendi
Sulpicius Severus	Life of St Martin
Tullius Cicero	De inventione

INDEX

Translator’s Preface                                                                              iii

Introduction                                                                                          iv

Sermons on Blessed Francis:       Sermon 1                                           1

                                                    Sermon 2                                         13

                                                    Sermon 3                                         27

Transfer of Saint Francis:           Sermon 1                                         42

                                                    Sermon 2                                         52

                                                    Sermon 3                                         62

                                                    Sermon 4                                         65

Sermon on Saint Anthony                                                                   75

Sermons on Saint Clare:              Sermon 1                                         84

                                                    Sermon 2                                         95