Sparkling in the ancient texts of the Fathers of the Church--the bishops, monks, and theologians who wrote during the first, formative six Christian centuries--is a fountain of wisdom over-flowing with spiritual nourishment for the world today. Second only to Holy Scripture as the staple reading of monastic lectio divina , the works of the Fathers draws Christians to the essentials of the fail as it affects daily life, worship, and prayer. By presenting a passage for meditation each day through the year, the volume ...
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Sparkling in the ancient texts of the Fathers of the Church--the bishops, monks, and theologians who wrote during the first, formative six Christian centuries--is a fountain of wisdom over-flowing with spiritual nourishment for the world today. Second only to Holy Scripture as the staple reading of monastic lectio divina , the works of the Fathers draws Christians to the essentials of the fail as it affects daily life, worship, and prayer. By presenting a passage for meditation each day through the year, the volume offers an introduction both to the Fathers and to monastic lectio --the reflective reading which gives rise to prayer. It speaks not only to the individual seeker, but also to those who guide others along the paths of the spirit. Above all, it provides an entry into the profound and spiritually stimulating experience of the Fathers of the Church, East and West. It shows the unanimity of faith and constancy of practice common to Christians in an undivided Church.
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New. We turn to the past, to the distant past, to the Church's infancy, putting forward a plan for meditation, during the course of a year, on the writings of the Fathers. Thomas Spidlik's ''Patristic Breviary'' provides, not a prayer book for daily use--Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Anglicanism already have their liturgical collections for this purpose--but nuggets mined from the Fathers of the Church for meditative reading. When even various Twelve Step programs use books of daily meditations (and Spidlik's entry for March 18 sounds like it is straight out of Alcoholics Anonymous), it is fitting that recourse be made to the Fathers daily. Spidlik chooses to follow the secular calendar rather than the Church's calendar. Thus, he begins with January 1; many of the meditations for the beginning of the year involve creation. The selections for June involve marriage, and the readings for the time around Labor Day happen to touch on work (a surprising coincidence in a book first published in Italy by a Slavic writer! ). Spidlik's Patristic sources are briefly but usefully described in a concluding note ''On Authors and Texts. '' If you don't know where to start in J.P. Migne's 378-volume Patrologiae Cursus Completus, begin with Spidlik. 447 pp.
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