Reading for 28 November 2010

On 28 November, we'll be discussing Chapters 4-5 of Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth. If you do not have your own copy of the book, you can find our reading assignment here.

We celebrate one of my favorite saints here on November 30, the Apostle Andrew. And, generally, even pious Christians in America do not know much of the story of these men beyond what we find in scripture. Sure, we all know something of the life of St. Paul, who features prominently in the Book of Acts, but even then we don't know what happened to him after that book concludes. You might like The Lives of the Holy Apostles: Saints Peter, Paul, Andrew, James ... from the Menology of St. Dimitri of Rostov in Russian and the Great Synaxaristes of the Orthodox Church in greek, which gives extensive lives of these holy men after the Ascension of our Lord.