27 surviving letters between Ambrose of Milan and Church of Neocaesarea, spanning 385-397 AD.
Brothers and sisters, I am distressed to learn that the peace I hoped for in your church has been shattered again.
Ambrose, Bishop, to the faithful at Milan.
Ambrose, Bishop, to the faithful of Milan.
Tobit was a righteous man living in exile, and his story teaches us what righteousness looks like under pressure.
David is Scripture's great case study in the coexistence of greatness and sin.
I have given you many sermons, brothers and sisters, and in most of them I have tried to teach, to instruct, to...
Ambrose, continuing his discourse on the death of his brother Satyrus.
Consider the widow of Zarephath.
There are those who say the Church has no power to forgive sins committed after baptism.
The pagans call death the supreme evil.
"Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the...
The Emperor Julian [Julian "the Apostate," 361-363, who attempted to reverse the Christianization of the empire]...
Ambrose, Bishop, to the faithful of Milan — on the death of the Emperor Valentinian.
The Emperor Gratian is dead, murdered by the treachery of men who owed him loyalty [Gratian was betrayed by his own...
"Do not fret because of evildoers; do not envy those who do wrong.
You live in a city that sits at the crossroads of the empire, and every idea — good and bad — passes through Milan.
"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth" (Song of Songs 1:2).
At Pentecost we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit, and I want you to understand what that gift means for your...
Ambrose, Bishop, to the faithful — on the death of the Emperor Theodosius.
Helena, mother of Constantine, went to Jerusalem and found the cross [according to the tradition that Ambrose helped...
"The earth belongs to the Lord, and everything in it" (Psalm 24:1).
I return to the subject of penance because the Novatianists return to their attacks.
I have preached on Psalm 119 for many weeks now, and it is time to draw the threads together.
The mystery of the Trinity is the foundation of everything we believe, and I want to set it out as clearly as I can.
Limenius, Bishop of Vercellæ, having died, the see remained long vacant owing to domestic factions. St. Ambrose, therefore, as Exarch, writes to the Christians at Vercellæ, and commences by reference to the speedy and unanimous election of Eusebius, a former Bishop, and reminds them of the presence of Christ as a reason for concord.