Warriors of God Wood

Warriors of God WoodWarriors of God: The Great Religious Orders and Their Founders, by church historian Walter Nigg, is a detailed and lively account of eleven of the great Christian monastic and religious orders and the fascinatingly diverse figures who launched them. The author begins with St. Anthony and the desert fathers, and continues with St. Pachomius and the development of cenobitic monasticism, St. Basil, St. Augustine and the common life of the clergy, St.

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Ambrose's teaching about the Church

preacher and spiritual director

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to truly hear Christ inviting us to serve Him

Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises and he has the talent to express it in simple words that all can understand

the Spirit-bearing mission of woman—and how we are to journey through the desert of this life

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Archbishop of Baltimore (the whole revised and diligently compared with the latin Vulgate by the Servant of God Bishop Richard Challoner)

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