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Christopher Hall invites us to accompany the fathers as they enter the sanctuary for worship and the chapel for prayer. He also takes us to the wilderness, where we learn from the early monastics as they draw close to God in their solitary discipline. The focus of this book is not liturgy but more broadly worship in its corporate and individual dimensions. We enter into the patristic...

remembering of the holy Trinity’s loving actions for human beings, “the bringing of the past into the present before God’s (and not primarily men’s) eyes, so that He may remember, act, and make his people walk forward from the covenant towards the end of the ages.”11 Indeed, the fathers’ linking of sacramentum with Paul’s use of mysterion indicates their clear awareness that “the plan of salvation eternally hidden in God,” the Lord’s divine secret, has now been “revealed in and by Christ.”12 This
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