In A Year With The Church Fathers: Patristic Wisdom For Daily Living, Mike Aquilina, popular author on Patristics, 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.

Who are the Church Fathers? What can they teach us? With these daily meditations, you will 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 of 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 with the Fathers of the Church that in just a few minutes every day will lead you on a journey of contemplation, prayer, resolution, and spiritual growth that is guaranteed to bring you closer to God and His Truth.

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The Fathers of the Church, first published a decade ago, has become the standard popular introduction to the great teachers of early Christianity. Now, this new edition presents more material from more of the Fathers -- including authors from little-known traditions of Egypt, East Syria, North Africa, and the lands that make up modern Iran and Iraq. Also new with this edition is a section on selected "Mothers of the Church," holy women from Christian antiquity.

This expanded edition features full references and citations, a topical index, detailed bibliography, and ancient texts available in English for the first time in more than a century.

The Fathers of the Church is an excellent place to pass on those same teachings and traditions -- long established as an indispensable reference tool for clergy, seminarians, RCIA candidates, and lay Catholics who want to strive to live up to the "Faith of Our Fathers."

In Getting to Know the Church Fathers patristics scholar Bryan Litfin presents a clearly written, accessible introduction to ten church fathers, including Augustine, Ignatius, and Tertullian, revealing the church tradition. These writers shaped the way we worship, pray, study scripture, and live as a community, and their reflections on the apostolic teachings edify all generations of believers. (57)