The Sayings of the Desert Fathers service_Matins/Orthros John the Theologian

John the Theologian

With its practical advice on resisting sin and cultivating virtue

the CD also includes chant of Byzantine and Georgian origin

Beyond simply depicting the way of life adopted by the illustrious elders of the desert

and of the humility and ingenuity with which he hid his virtues while dwelling in the midst of men

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers service_Matins/Orthros John the TheologianThe Apophthegmata Patrum: The Alphabetic Collection Translated, with a foreword, by Benedicta Ward SLG; Preface by Metropolitan Anthony [Bloom] of Sourozh "Give me a word, Father," visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. Their Sayings were collected, in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who