TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF THE COUNTESS HAHN-HAHN
By
EMILY F. BOWDEN
With a Chapter on The Spiritual Life of the first Six Centuries
By
JOHN BERNARD DALGAIRNS
(Priest of the Oratory)
In Two Volumes: Volume I and II
BURNS AND OATES
28 ORCHARD STREET
LONDON W
Second Edition 1907
How it took possession of the world; by the doctrine of its being the only way of salvation; by the connection between the ancient prophecies and their fulfilment; by learning; by its civilization of mankind: by works of love
Why Christians rejoiced over each new Church—Description by Eusebius of the Church at Tyre—Basilicas—Their decoration—The cross, images and votive offerings—The Liturgy of the Church—Oblation—Eulogia—The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass—Low Masses—Votivo Masses—Masses for the Dead—The Canonical Hours
Sunday—Easter—Ascension Day—The Rogation days—Pentecost—Christmas—Epiphany—The feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Saints—The spirit of penance—Secret and public confession—The four degrees of public penance—Relaxation of the spirit of penance
Byzantium; its situation, environs, greatness, riches, beauty, palaces, churches and treasures of art—The Nile and its banks
How the anchorites strove to live according to the three evangelical counsels given by Christ—The evangelical counsel founded the state of perfection by means of Christian asceticism—Its fruit, mysticism, is the union of the soul with God—Penance or suffering for the love of God must precede the kingdom of God in the soul
The Deserts of the East—The Great Syrian Desert from Anti-Lebanon to the Euphrates—Damascus at its entrance—The Lesser Arabian Desert between Gaza and Cairo—The Egyptian Desert between Cairo and the Great Cataract of the Nile—The Thebaid between the Nile and the Red Sea—The caves and the ancient Egyptian rock-sepulchres
Born 229—Died 342.
Patriarch of solitaries—He flies from the world and finds God—He is discovered by Antony—His death
Born 251—Died 356.
His parentage and education—The Gospel leads him to the state of perfection—He practises holy asceticism—The tempter torments him—He goes to Thebais and shuts himself up in a ruined tower for twenty years—His influence upon his own and future ages—His miracles—His rewards—His prophecies—He goes to the mountains of Colzim—The end of his life
Born 291—Died 371.
At the age of fourteen he seeks the guidance of St Antony—He withdraws to the morasses on the shore of the Mediterranean near Gaza—The severity of his mortification—His prayers work miracles—His hermitage becomes a place of pilgrimage—Disciples collect around him, and lauras with anchorites and monasteries with monks arise and flourish in Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia...
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About The Fathers of the Desert, Vols. 1 & 2This two-volume collection contains both an introduction to the Christian practice of monastic asceticism and a biographical survey of a number of the most famous and important of the desert fathers of the Orthodox Christian tradition. The introductory essays discuss the differences between Christianity and other world religions, the advent of Christian worship and its form in the earliest centuries of the Church, the observation of fasts and feast days, the historical context of Eastern Christendom in the period of the desert fathers, and a brief introduction to the life and practices of monastics. The great fathers of the desert are all covered in detail, beginning with Paul of Thebes and Anthony the Great, moving all the way through the sixth and seventh centuries and covering great fathers like John Climacus, author of the pivotal Ladder of Divine Ascent. |
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