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Hear the Ancient Wisdom: A Meditational Reader for the Whole Year from the Early Church Fathers to the Pre-Reformation is unavailable, but you can change that!

There is a hunger in the modern world for spirituality. One vast resource of spiritual wisdom, too often overlooked, comes out of the pre-Reformation church—from the martyrs of the first centuries of Christianity, through the long tradition of monasticism, to the medieval Christian mystics. Now, assembled and digested for daily intake, the spiritual insights of over seventy men and women of...

The Heart of All Things There is much that is good and much that is needful. But the heart of all things for the Christian is to love God with all that one is and has. Throughout the history of the Christian church there have been periods of great apostolic endeavor, times of theological controversy, times of reformation, and times of great devotion. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were particularly a time of renewal in the love of God. The prayer of St. Francis expresses
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