Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers SVS Press This work is a companion

This work is a companion volume to Saint Macarius the Spirit Bearer

Five Theological Orations

Isaac of Nineveh was a native of Bet Qatraye near present-day Bahrain on the Persian Gulf

of carrying one another's burdens in the most direct and natural ways

while he was in his final exile

Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers SVS Press This work is a companion"Sugg. Donation" When Christians first began living as monks in the Egyptian desert at the beginning of the fourth century, they had few books and almost no learning. As they gained experience, they concentrated that experience in the form of an oral tradition of tales and sayings (apophthegmata). Apart from the Scriptures (also learned by heart) this was the only training manual they had. Consequently, when the onslaught of barbarians drove many