num_pages: 269
description: `Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. Their Sayings were collected, in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who uttered them, and read by generations of Christians as life-giving words that would help readers along the path to salvation.
language: English
title: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection
titlecomplete: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian studies 59)
genres: Classics, Christianity, Catholic, Church History, Religion, Theology, Reference, Spirituality, Prayer, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3191
series: Cistercian Studies Series
publisher: Liturgical Press