Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers; New and Revised Edition

• Sayings & stories for each day of the year.
• From revered saints and persons
• Short daily readings & reflections
• Guidance for Christian living
• Spend a year immersed in the desert Fathers & Mothers

Revised edition of Tim Vivian’s Becoming Fire continues to inspire readers with ancient wisdom for modern Christian contemplation.

The sayings of the desert monks of the fifth and sixth centuries continue to inspire readers with their wisdom, and those who read them as the ancients did, slowly and reflectively, still learn from the insights they offer. In this revised edition of Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers, Tim Vivian arranges these stories in short daily readings and invites readers to savor the monks' advice as guides to Christian living.

This volume provides:

• sayings and stories for each day of the year to use for lectio divina.
• saints and revered persons from the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopalian traditions.
• sayings from the Philokalia and the fourth-fifth century monastic writers Neilos of Ancyra and Hyperechios, among others.

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