Hayden Mills’s Reviews > Pastoral Care in Historical Perspective > Status Update

"Arise, soldier of Christ! Shake off the dust and return to battle... do you think that because you forsaken the front line the enemy has forsaken you?... surrounded by a company of single-hearted brethren, what have you to fear? If Christ is with us, who is against us? With Christ and for Christ victory is certain." Bernard is Clairvoux

Halitgars list of sins you can commit with the host (bread in Lord’s Supper):
1. Letting a mouse eat it
2. Spilling wine on altar
3. Letting the host fall into the straw
4. Vomiting the host.
5. Neglecting the host so a worm gets in it.

Punishments include whipping yourself, penance, fasting, etc.

Now I know why Luther was so mad when he spilled the wine at his first communion.

John Chrysostom to a widow:

"Having then so bravely borne present troubles, and this when you were inexperienced, you will far more easily endure future events should any of the things contrary to our wishes, which God forbid, occur. Therefore seek heaven, and all things which conduce to life in the other world, and none of the things here will be able to harm thee, not even the world ruler of Darkness himself."

"Be not ready to amputate speedily, and do not rush in a hurry and run to the saw of many teeth, but first use scalpels and cut the ulcer, that the cause of the evil which is hidden inside it may be seen openly and be known, that the whole body may be kept from being affected." Testament of the Twelve Apostles

"Extra-ecclesiastical healing arts underwent such progress that physical and psychological explanations of and cures for ills and irrational behavior replaced the explanation of demon possession and the cures of exorcism... Thus it was during the Enlightenment that pastoral healing lapsed into a desuetude from which it has as yet not fully recovered."

4 practices of pastoral care of souls: guiding, healing, sustaining, reconciling.