Faith of Our Fathers: Why the Early Christians Still Matter and Always Will (Biblia.com)

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In two-and-a-half centuries, the Church Fathers converted the pagan world without resources, or social or political power. Even with the most primitive communications media, the message of Jesus Christ increased the size of the Church by 40 percent per decade over the course of those centuries. In Faith of Our Fathers: Why the Early Christians Still Matter and Always Will, Mike Aquilina argues...

THOSE EXCELLENT SCHOOLS WERE, nevertheless, exceptional. For the most part, the Fathers carried out their educational program by creating a liturgical culture—a ritual culture that enabled people to steep in the Faith, soak in it, absorb it. The calendar was crucial. There were the biblical feasts that told the story of salvation history again and again. There were the memorials of the apostles and martyrs, which preserved the Church’s history and held up examples for imitation. There was the lectionary,

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