ACW: Vol. 17: The Works of St. Patrick, St. Secundinus: Hymn on St. Patrick
Translated and annotated by Ludwig Beiler
128 pp. P351

St. Patrick did not consider himself a man of letters; the short texts that survive reflect, however, his powerfu personality . A contemporary and fellow missionary of St. Patrick, Secundinus is an enthusiastic admirer and defender of St. Patrick in this hymn.

ACW: Vol. 18: St. Gregory of Nyssa: the Lord's Prayer, The Beatitudes
Translated and annotated by Hilda C. Graef
222 pp. P505

The two series of homilies presented here are intensely practical, full of examples from the moral, social, medical and scientific life of Gregory's time. They paint a picture of a man thoroughly conversant with human nature in general, and in the needs of his contemporaries.

ACW: Vol. 19: Origen: Prayer, Exhortation to Martyrdom
Translated and annotated by John J. O'Meara
264 pp. P659

Composed c. 233, the treatise on Prayer is not merely a treatise, but a prayer itself. The Exhortation was composed c. 235 to provide solace for Origen's great friend and patron Ambrose, and the presbyter Protocietus, both of whom had been imprisoned.

ACW: Vol. 20: Rufinus: A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed
Translated and annotated by JND Kelly
176 pp. P329

His most important work, aimed at persons under instruction for the sacraments, the Commentary offers a guide to elucidating and justifying the Creed. It offers a glimpse of popular Christian propaganda at the beginning of the fifth century.

ACW: Vol. 24: Tertullian: The Treatise against Hermogenes
Translated and annotated by J. H. Waszink
190 pp. P329

Hermogenes was still living when Carthage's native son took up his pen to Carthage's native son took up his pen to oppose him; but that did not make Tertullian's polemic more considerate, or his satire less passionate and biting. Hjermogenes taught a form of materialism. Tertullian brilliantly convicts him of contradiction.

ACW: Vol. 27: St. Methodius: The Symposium: A Treatise on Chastity
Translated and annotated by Herbert Musurillo, sj.
256 pp. P373

The Symposium, or Banquet, is dialogue in imitation of Plato, written by Methodius, a teacher and probably a bishop who flourishedin Lycia during the period known as the Little Peace of the Church. It is perhaps the most beautiful symbolic prose-poem of the early patristic period.

ACW: Vol. 28: Tertullian: Treatises on Penance: On Penitence and On Purity
Translated and annotated by William P. Le Saint,sj
342 pp. P483

The judgment that one forms of the theory and practice of penance in Christian antiquity will be largely determined by the interpretation which one puts upon these two treatises. On Penitence dates from Tertullian's Catholic period, and is a sermon addressed to the faithful on the subject of repentance and forgiveness. On Purity is one of his most violent Montanist treatises. In it he criticizes the policy the Church follows in granting pardon to serious sins.

ACW: Vol. 29: St. Augustine on the Psalms, Vol. 1
Translated and annotated by Dame Scholastica Hebgin and Dame Felicitas Corrigan
360 pp. P769

This volume covers Augustine's notes and commentaries on Psalms 1 through 29. Augustine's theme is the Church, less as an external institution than as the very focus and center of Christ and God.

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