Lent with the Church Fathers

Join us for a Holy Lent with the Church Fathers. Starting on Ash Wednesday (03/06/19) through the forty days of Lent, we will plod through the work of men like St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Athanasius, St. Ambrose, St. Leo the Great and more! By the end of the Lent, you will have worked through ten different early church works.

How It Works

Each day, you will get a short email with a prayer and reading. Your lenten discipline will be to read the assigned writing. This sacrifice should take 10-15 minutes of your day.

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Which Forty Days?

The season of Lent (Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday) is technically 44 days, the number of days for penance and this study before Easter is still 40: 44 days minus 6 Sundays equals 38, plus Good Friday and Holy Saturday equals 40.

Why study the Fathers?

Understanding and studying the Church Fathers is an essential task from a hermeneutical perspective. The writings of the Apostolic and the Ante-Nicene periods are the “intertextual community” through which we must interpret Scripture. They demonstrate that what Jesus and his disciples taught is the same as what the church is teaching today.

What works will we read?