The Sermons of Saint Bernardine of Siena

St. Bernardine of Siena

• Publisher: TAN Books
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9781505139396
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Saint Bernardine of Siena was an uncompromising Franciscan preacher whose public sermons sought to reform the moral and social corruption of fifteenth-century Italy. In these transcribed discourses, he confronts the evils of factional division, the poison of slander, and the seductive pull of worldly vanity with remarkable clarity and pastoral conviction. He also addresses the demands of justice in business, the necessity of almsgiving, and the sacred responsibilities of Christian marriage. St. Bernardine speaks, Dear Reader, with the urgency of a shepherd intent on leading souls to heaven. Through vivid examples, penetrating insight, and unwavering fidelity to the moral law, he exposes the snares of the devil, the false promises of earthly pleasures, and the destructive nature of usury and other hidden sins. Enter this timeless work to gain a deeper understanding of authentic repentance and the enduring obligations of the Christian life.

Table of contents

• The Sermons of Saint Bernardine of Siena
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Sermon I Of the marvellous care which God exerts over human nature, and how God watches over us with His Angels.
• Sermon II Treateth of the preacher and the listener, and of the part that belongeth to each.
• Sermon III Here is said how you should forsake evil and do good.
• Sermon IV Backbiters are treated of with most beautiful examples.
• Sermon V Here the evil tongue and remedies against backbiters are treated of again.
• Sermon VI How a man should bridle his tongue.
• Sermon VII Why God hath given us a tongue.
• Sermon VIII Of divisions and factional feeling, and of the destruction sent by God.
• Sermon IX Of those who begin to do good and then turn back.
• Sermon X Of the anger and pride of sinners.
• Sermon XI Of the love of one’s neighbour.
• Sermon XII Of governments and how we should govern with justice.
• Sermon XIII How we should love our neighbour.
• Sermon XIV How the husband should love his wife, and in like manner the wife her husband.
• Sermon XV Here is treated also the well-ordered love that ought to exist between man and wife.
• Sermon XVI How worthy widows should be honoured.
• Sermon XVII Once more of party feeling.
• Sermon XVIII Of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.
• Sermon XIX How he who hath an office must administer justice.
• Sermon XX How and what we should ask of God.
• Sermon XXI How we must ask of God that he may teach us to do his will.
• Sermon XXII Doth still treat of how we ought to ask of God that he teach us to do his will.
• Sermon XXIII Of the twelve damsels whom the Virgin Mary had round about her.
• Sermon XXIV Of Saint Francis.
• Sermon XXV How God is to be feared.
• Sermon XXVI Of the Scourges of God.
• Sermon XXVII How everything that doth belong to this world is vanity.
• Sermon XXVIII How business ought to be carried on.
• Sermon XXIX Of alms, and to whom alms should be given.
• Sermon XXX Likewise of alms, and of the utility and the fruit which he who giveth them doth derive therefrom.
• Sermon XXXI The prophet David, searching for peace in this world, found it not.
• Sermon XXXII How we ought to love God, and how he took farewell of the people.
• Endnotes