{"id":800,"date":"2010-09-18T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T18:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisrestlesspilgrim.wordpress.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2011-09-23T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T19:20:09","slug":"new-patristics-book-from-mike-aquilina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/new-patristics-book-from-mike-aquilina\/","title":{"rendered":"New Patristics Book from Mike Aquilina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Aquilina recently asked on his blog to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fathersofthechurch.com\/2010\/09\/17\/make-this-video-go-viral\/\" target=\"_blank\">make this video go viral<\/a>. \u00a0 It is the trailer for Mike&#8217;s latest book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1935302353\/wayofthefathers-sidebar-20\">A Year With The Fathers: Patristic Wisdom For Daily Living<\/a>. \u00a0Well, since one of the aims of this blog is to introduce people to the Early Church Fathers, I could hardly refuse!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JXifhXs_D0k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read most of Mike&#8217;s books &#8211; he really is the go-to guy for getting into Patristics. \u00a0In his new book he <em><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;gathers the wisest, most practical teachings and exhortations from the Fathers of the Church, and presents them in a format perfect for daily meditation and inspiration&#8221;<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;Learn to humbly accept correction from St Clement of Rome. Let Tertullian teach you how to clear your mind before prayer. Read St Gregory the Great and deepen your love of the Eucharist. Do you suffer from pain or illness? St John Chrysostom\u2019s counsels will refresh you. Do you have trouble curbing your appetite for food and other fleshly things? St John Cassian will teach you the true way to moderation and self-control&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is one of my biggest reasons for loving the Fathers &#8211; they have so much practical wisdom to share with us in our day-to-day lives. \u00a0Needless to say once I&#8217;ve finished this blog entry I&#8217;m going to Amazon to order a copy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Aquilina recently asked on his blog to make this video go viral. \u00a0 It is the trailer for Mike&#8217;s latest book,\u00a0A Year With The Fathers: Patristic Wisdom For Daily Living. \u00a0Well, since one of the aims of this blog is to introduce people to the Early Church Fathers, I could hardly refuse! I&#8217;ve read most of Mike&#8217;s books &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[51,100],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-fathers","tag-early-church-fathers","tag-mike-aquilina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5432,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}