A Year with the Church Fathers

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Author: Mike Aquilina

Product Code: B1658
ISBN: 9781935302353
Publisher: Tan
Format: Imitation Leather

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A Year with the Church Fathers - Patristic Wisdom For Daily Living. Times change, but human nature does not. Neither do the daily struggles that all Christians experience in their walk with the Lord. Today as two thousand years ago we fight anger, pride, lust, spiritual sloth. Now as then we strive to be more diligent in prayer, more faithful to the commandments, more patient and charitable toward others. And in our time, no less than in the earliest centuries of Christianity, we need wise guidance to direct us on the road to holiness. In A Year with the Church Fathers, popular Patristics expert Mike Aquilina gathers the wisest, most practical teachings and exhortations from the Fathers of the Church, and presents them in a format perfect for daily meditation and inspiration. The Fathers were the immediate inheritors of the riches of the Apostolic Age, and their intimacy with the revelation of Jesus Christ is beautifully evident throughout their theological and pastoral writings: a profound patrimony that is ours to read and cherish and profit from. Learn to humbly accept correction from St. Clement of Rome. Let Tertullian teach you how to clear your mind before prayer. Read St. Gregory the Great and deepen your love for the Eucharist. Do you suffer from pain or illness? St. John Chrysostom's counsels will refresh you. Do you have trouble curbing your appetite for food and other fleshly things? St. John Cassian will teach you the true way to moderation and self-control. A Year with the Church Fathers is different from a study guide, and more than a collection of pious passages. It is a year-long retreat that in just a few minutes every day will lead you on a cycle of contemplation, prayer, resolution, and spiritual growth that is guaranteed to bring you closer to God and His truth. From the Church Fathers we should expect nothing less. Beautiful gift edition, with two- tone ultra soft cover, ribbon marker, and designed interior pages.

About the Author: Mike Aquilina is author or editor of more than a dozen books on Catholic history, doctrine, devotion and Church Fathers. He is vice president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology based in Steubenville, Ohio. Mike is co-host, with Scott Hahn, of "The Lamb's Supper" (2001), "Hail, Holy Queen" (2002), "First Comes Love" (2003), "Lord, Have Mercy" (2004), and "Swear to God" (2005) - all airing on EWTN.

A Year with the Church Fathers" contains passages from historical writings of all the following Church Fathers:

Aphrahat
Aristides
Asterius of Amasea
Athenagoras
Barnabas
Commodianus
Dionysius
Eusebius
Hermas
Jacob of Serugh
Lactantius
Origen
Palladius of Galatia
Philoxenus
Pope St. Gregory the Great
St. Ambrose
St. Athanasius
St. Augustine
St. Basil
St. Clement of Alexandria
St. Clement of Rome

St. Cyprian
St. Cyril of Jerusalem
St. Cyril of Alexandria
St. Ephrem the Syrian
St. Gregory of Nyssa
St. Gregory Nazianzen
St. Hilary of Poitiers
St. Ignatius of Antioch
St. Irenaeus
St. Jerome
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Cassian
St. John of Damascus
St. Justin Martyr
St. Leo the Great
St. Pacian
St. Vincent of Lerins
Sulpitius Severus
Tatian
Tertullian
Theodoret

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