“ Mike Aquilina has a way of writing about the Fathers of the Church and the saints as if he just finished a telephone call or received a text message from one of them. He has hosted nine television series and several documentary films and is a frequent guest on Catholic radio. Read 16 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. His works have been translated into many languages. The old hymn, Faith of Our Fathers, inspires Catholics to be true-in spite of dungeon, fire and sword-to the spirit and wisdom of the Church fathers. What People Are Saying: Using this book in an adult church school class, I found the. Mike Aquilina is the award-winning author of more than forty books on Catholic history, doctrine, and devotion. It shows us a Nicene Creed that is pastoral, practical, and personal. This book is a journey into that world, a tour where your guides are the Fathers. Maybe there’s something we can learn from them. Yet their Church sustained a steady growth rate of 40 percent per decade over the course of those centuries. They did it with the most primitive communications media. They did it without any resources, without any social or political power. They converted the pagan world in a mere two and a half centuries. : Faith of Our Fathers (9780702217616) by Zavos, Spiro Bernard and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Pamphlet about Paul Greens symphonic historical drama, Faith of Our Fathers, from its premiere season in the summer of 1950. The Fathers managed to pull off an amazing achievement. When we look to our roots, what do we see? That’s what Mike Aquilina shows you in this book. The early Christians are our ancestors, our common genealogy, our family. It means knowing more deeply who we are as we learn more and more about who they are. Getting to know the Church Fathers means getting to know our own roots.
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