Remember the excitement you felt when you first found the works of the Fathers? Relive those days with Deacon Alex Jones, in his memoir of discovery, No Price Too High. Jones was a Pentecostal pastor when he started reading the Apostolic Fathers. These men, so clearly living in continuity with the Apostles, made him long for continuity with them — communion, actually, and of a sacramental sort. The book’s hard to put down. And, never mind the title, it’s really quite affordable!
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I’m just now doing a Lenten reading of an assortment of Apostolic and early church fathers, and finding it just wonderful. Stunning to think these writings have been there all my life, and I never wanted to read them or had them recommended to me. I suspect my next big project will be to read Augustine, of whom I know a little history but whose writings I’ve not read. (Like your Blog, Mike. I also read your “Mass of the Early Christians” last fall. good stuff.) Bless you.