CatholicFatherOf2

The Fathers of the Church

I just finished another book today. I was going to talk about it a little here, but when I started to write about it, I kept thinking about another book. I kept thinking about how it was good that I read The Fathers of the Church, by Mike Aquilina, first. I hadn't read much about my faith until about 18 months ago and this was the first book I read about the people who guarded and preserved the body of the church during the first few hundred years. People like Origen, St. Jerome, St. Polycarp and many others where names that meant very little to me. I had no idea about the struggles they went through and how most of them where martyred. If you would like to learn more about these great men, the first Christian teachers, and get some insight into the struggles of the early church this book is a great start. Maybe tomorrow, I will talk about the other book.

posted by CatholicFatherOf2 @ 9:10 PM