The Sayings of the Desert Fathers service_Matins/Orthros Smyth-sewn and clothbound with dust

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

with jewel like illustrations by Cayce Grace Kruse

" In his writing

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 Smyth-sewn and clothbound with dustThe 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