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Carregando... Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (2012)de Milton Walsh
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"In the four volumes of the Liturgy of the Hours ... there are nearly 600 selections from the writings of the Fathers and saints. Seeing the potential of this vast collection as a theological resource, Milton Walsh has organized these selection by topics according to the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. This topical concordance allows the reader to compare what the various authors have written on the same themes, while a chronological timeline of the readings shows their relationship to each other in time. Walsh has also provided background on the liturgical celebrations of the Church, as well as historical information on each author." --Book jacket. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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![]() GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)264.024Religions Christian church and church work Public Worship; Ritual Public worship; ritual Roman Catholic ritual Evening Prayer; Vespers; ComplineClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:![]()
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After a fifty page history of these patristic readings, there's almost 100 pages of historical biographical information about the authors. It takes a while to get used to the alphabetization, though: people are arranged by their first names, which works with people like Augustine and Anselm, but it's a bit surprising to keep finding Robert Bellarmine in the "R"s. There are, sadly, a few typographical errors, including the repeated mistake of calling Augustine's lengthy sermon on pastors "Psalm 46" instead of "Sermon 46."
As an aside, I had hoped that this would be a reasonable replacement for the long out-of-print "Office of Readings," a separate volume published by ICEL years ago providing just these readings (which was a nice complement to the one-volume Christian Prayer, rather than needing the four-volume full set). There is an index of writers, but unfortunately, there is no day-by-day conversion chart, so one can't see what the reading is for any particular day. Also, while some snippets of these writings do appear in multiple places, there's no way to piece them back together. This is difficult to explain, but here's an example: one part of Basil's Rules, which would be read on the third Tuesday of Ordinary Time, can be found under the section on "Man's Capacity for God," and a different part appears under the section on "God Comes to Meet Man." If you wanted to read both pieces in context -- without going to the four-volume Liturgy of the Hours -- which one would you read first? Likewise, it's not at all easy to read something in the LotH and attempt to use this book to find related concepts. This book, of course, made no promises that it could do any of this.
Although this book tries to do a lot of things, it does most of them very well, and is a worthwhile introduction to the early church fathers.
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LT Haiku:
Writings of holy
men* reveal insights into
the Christian scripture.
* Women are also
included but that screws
up the syllables. (