The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life

The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life
Author:
Publisher: Cistercian Studies Series
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1987
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780879079017

From the semitic-aramaic spirituality of the early Church to the Hellenized theological Vision of later centuries, the Syrian tradition offers modern Christians an intensity, insights, and an immediacy rare in the West.

The Syrian Fathers on Prayer

The Syrian Fathers on Prayer
Author: Sebastian Brock
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2010-10-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781611432282

The Syriac translation of Sebastian Brock's The Teaching of the Syrian Fathers on Prayer, an anthology of writings from the Syriac tradition that focus on prayer and the spiritual life.

Orthodox Prayer Life

Orthodox Prayer Life
Author: Mattá (al-Miskīn)
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2003
Genre: Prayer
ISBN: 9780881412505

This volume evolved experientially: the fruit of fifty-five years of solitude by a contemporary Coptic Orthodox desert monk besieged by prayer. Fr Matta's prayer life initially was formed under the direction of the sayings of the Russian Fathers, and later expanded under the direction of other Fathers, both Eastern and Western. He imparts to his readers "a whole course" on prayer.

Prayers of the Early Church

Prayers of the Early Church
Author: J. Manning Potts
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Prayers of the Early Church, edited by J. Manning Potts was first published in 1908. It contains a selection of prayers, arranged chronologically, and collected from many old books of prayers and devotional materials. Chapters include; New Testament Prayers (Simeon, Mary, Jesus, Stephen, Paul, Peter); Other First Century Prayers (Clement of Rome, Clementine Liturgy, Syrian Clementine Liturgy); Second Century Prayers (Polycarp, Ignatius, Liturgy of St. James, Barnabas, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus); Third Century Prayers (Old Gallican Sacramentary, Liturgy of St. Mark, Eastern Church Liturgy, Eastern Church Vespers); Fourth Century Prayers (Coptic Liturgy of St. Cyril, Ambrose, Nerses of Clajes, Gallican Sacramentary, Armenian Liturgy, Basil, Chrysostom, Augustine, Apostolic Constitutions); and, Fifth Century Prayers (Liturgy of the Nestorians, Ancient Collect, Leonine Sacramentary, Gelasian Sacramentary, Liturgy of the Blessed Apostles).

Three Homilies

Three Homilies
Author: St. Ephrem the Syrian
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-12-07
Genre:
ISBN: 1078738386

Ephrem the Syrian was a Syriac Christian deacon and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the fourth century. Ephrem is especially beloved in the Syriac Orthodox Church, and counted as a Venerable Father (i.e., a sainted Monk) in the Eastern Orthodox Church. His feast day is celebrated on 28 January and on the Saturday of the Venerable Fathers. He was declared a Doctor of the Church in the Catholic Church in 1920.