Bede the Venerable: Excerpts from the Works of Saint Augustine and the Letters of the Blessed Apostle Paul SVS Press There is a growing hunger

There is a growing hunger among the youth in the Coptic Churches of North America

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As word of the wisdom and purity of the Desert Fathers and Mothers spread throughout the Roman Empire

mothers have quite the job: to shape

when new comers would join the community

Bede the Venerable: Excerpts from the Works of Saint Augustine and the Letters of the Blessed Apostle Paul SVS Press There is a growing hunger"Sugg. Donation" Best known for his historical and exegetical works Bede is here seen as the silent compiler. Bede makes use of and adds to the excerpts from Augustine's writings compiled by Eugippius, a neopolitan who in the seventh century collected meaningful passages from Augustine's commentary on the Letters of Paul for his monks. Bede then arranged these excerpts in the order of Paul's letters as we have them today. Bede's compilation, which was