Audio Presentations St. Augustine by Archbishop Daniel DiNardo [mp3 file] Running Time: 77 minutes The Church Fathers by Archbishop Daniel DiNardo [mp3 file] Running Time: 80 minutes
Online Resources This link from the Office of the Clergy (Vatican) offers a variety of material written by the Church Fathers. Included are some of the great homilies given by the Fathers of our early Church.
Link | Resources for Purchase Archbishop DiNardo stated that the preaching and teaching of the Fathers was an unpacking of the scriptures in the early life of the Church. This essential period of the "Patristics," the Fathers, through the 5th century was essential to the development of our canon and our creed. Read for yourself the very words written by these great spiritual leaders of our Church. These are a few books to begin to learn more. Early Christian Fathers, Cyril C. Richardson, Ed., Simon & Schuster, 1996
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Link The Early Christian Fathers: A Selection from the Writings of the Fathers from St. Clement of Rome to St. Athanasius, Henry Bettenson, Oxford University Press, 1969
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Link Ancient Christian Writers Series from Paulist Press
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The first teachers of Christianity as collectively called "the Fathers" of the Church. These great men were filled with the Holy Spirit in such as way that their writings expressed for the Church great understanding and wisdom about the Word, as well as Church teaching. Read what the Fathers had to say about scripture to become more intimately connected to what the Word is saying to us as a person and as a Church. Also included is audio material of presentations from Cardinal DiNardo on this topic.