The Great Lent: Patristic Meditations on the Sunday Gospels

by John Paul Abdelsayed, Moses Samaan (Editor), Ishak Boulos (Editor)

This book contains extracts from various Patristic authors and Fathers of the Church on the themes that pertain to Great Lent. For Example, page 100 contains an entry by St. Augustine of Hippo entitled, "His Will in Fasting" and page 101 has an entry by St. Ephrem the Syrian entitled, "Christ, Adam, and the Fast". The book was compiled by Christians from the Coptic (Egyptian) Orthodox Church which is part of the Oriental Orthodox Churches.

306 pages, Paperback

First published February 10, 2010

Reviews

[Domatius Shafik · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Church Fathers, in their wisdom, contemplated on the Gospels and ultimately the work of the Lord which led to Holy Week. The Lord’s miracles and interactions with all people are a testament to the Truth that He is the Messiah who came to save the world. These patristic meditations give us insight to not only how they thought but how we can come to understand the amazing work of our Lord and His love for us.

[Amanda Gorial · Rating 5 out of 5]

Learnt so much reading this! Excited and inspired to apply the things I gained from this book in my life :)