Dear listeners,

Today’s podcast is about two saints who loved the poor, and also about true friendship. Listen in to learn more! Let’s just say it had something to do with silver table settings like this one:

Here are the references I consulted for this episode:

Saint Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus. Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium. https://www.copticchurch.net/synaxarium/9_17.html?lang=

Saint John, Bishop of Jerusalem. Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium. https://www.copticchurch.net/synaxarium/10_13.html?lang=

St. John Chrysostom On Wealth and Poverty, Popular Patristics Series. SVS Press.

St. Gregory of Nyssa On the Lord’s Prayer and the Beatitudes, Ancient Christian Writers series, Paulist Press.

Christopher A. Hall Living Wisely with the Church Fathers, IVP Academic.

As I mentioned on the show, I’m running a giveaway for two books: The Way of the Desert Elders by Lisa Colón DeLay | SparkMyMuse and Nature Poems to See By, by Julien Peters. To enter, make sure you are subscribed, and then comment on this post with what you are reading this Lent, and which of the two books you would like to enter for.

Thank you for listening, and may we fast an acceptable fast,

Phoebe Farag Mikhail

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