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Saints: Life & Times© Marjorie Tautkus
Lessons
Lesson 1:
Holiness
A review of pre-Christian holiness;
The promise made to Adam;
What exactly is a covenant?
The covenant with Noah;
The covenant with...
Pre-Christian Holiness
Rainbow Promises
Confusion and the Hour Glass Effect
Faith in Promises
Person Specific
Sealed in Blood
Putting off the body of the flesh
All Things in Due Season
Bibliography
Lesson 2:
Martyrs
A study of martyrdom and the martyrs:
The mind set that clamored, "Kill the infidel!";
The Protomartyr;
Nero's Pogrom;
Individual martyrs;...
Why Kill the Christians?
Protomartyr
A Dangerous Foreign Superstition
Wholesale Persecution, and One Who Laughed
Bibliography
Lesson 3:
Consecrated Lives
Consecrated virgins, consecrated widows: history, responsibilities, current revival....
Consecrated Virgins
. . . . . St. Cecilia
Consecrated Widows
. . . . . and Deaconesses?
. . . . . Consecrated Widowhood Today
Bibliography
Lesson 4:
Monastic Beginnings
Deals with the early rise of monasticism: The Desert Fathers and the Rule Givers....
The Desert
. . . . . Citizens of Heaven
. . . . . Citizens of Earth
. . . . . A Life of Heaven on Earth
The First Rule-Giver
. . . . . St. Basil the Great
. . . . . St. Benedict of Nursia
Bibliography
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