Os sermões de Dominga de Quaresma do Padre Antônio Vieira interessam segundo as suas práticas contemporâneas de produção e recepção. Historicamente, foram preparados para circular de forma escrita e publicados dispersos pelos tomos da editio princeps do Sermões, entre 1679 e 1699. Editados, destinaram-se a um leitor em momento distante da pregação, que se constrói, porém, circunstancialmente na página. Para discutir esses sermões de Quaresma, são importantes as noções de ductus e eschematisménos lógos. A primeira é lida em Fortunaciano e Marciano Capela, sistematizada por Heinrich Lausberg e tratada por leitores de Vieira. A segunda procura iluminar as lições desses retores dito menores e embasar as leituras dos sermões a partir de passagens de outros textos, de outras doutrinas, de retores latinos e gregos, como Quintiliano, Demétrio, Hermógenes e, no século XV, Jorge de Trebizonda.

Sunday of Lent sermons by Father Antônio Vieira are of interest in conformity to their contemporary practices of production and reception. Historically, they had been composed to circulate in written form and to be published dispersed in the volumes of the editio princeps of the Sermões between 1679 and 1699. Nevertheless, from the moment they were printed they were direct to a reader who was, in a way, distant from the preaching, which is framed, even though circimstantially, in the pages. So as to discuss these Lent sermons, notions of ductus and eschematisménos lógos are fundamental. The former is read in Fortunatianus and Marcianus Capella, systematized by Heinrich Lausberg and debated by Vieiras readers. The latter aims to cast light on the lessons of these so-called rhetores latini minoris and also to give foundation to the readings of the sermons from excerpts of other texts, other doctrines, and Greek and Latin rhetoricians, as Quintilian, Demetrius, Hermogenes and, in the fifteenth century, George of Trebizond.