Vladimir’s Press, sixty or so relatively short and quite readable paperbacks. The book is one of the “Popular Patristics” series offered by St. 388, when he was a simple, but very popular, priest in Antioch, after being a monk for some years and a decade before he was sent as bishop to Constantinople. This book, On Wealth and Poverty, is a compilation of six sermons delivered by Chrysostom, probably in A.D. To gain insight into this problem, or maybe seeking reassurance, rather than rely on my personal interpretation of Scripture, which is worse than useless, I turned to one of the Fathers of the Church, Saint John Chrysostom. At a minimum, being rich is a grave danger for a man’s soul. The problem is, as most everybody knows, that being rich sits very uneasily with Christian faith. I bathe twice daily in French champagne and always cover my burgers in gold leaf. Today, however, as I state perhaps too often, I am rich. I was not wealthy growing up, nor was anybody I knew. As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be rich.
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