Mike Aquilina, author of Friendship and the Fathers: How the Early Church Evangelized, shares how vital the practice of friendship was to
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Mike Aquilina, Friendship and the Fathers: How the Early Church Evangelized Mike Aquilina, author of Friendship and the Fathers: How the Early Church Evangelized, shares how vital the practice of friendship was to the spreading of Christianity in the Church’s early years. It was in fact the only means of evangelization; until the Edict of Milan in 313 A.D., Christianity was a capital crime...
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FRIENDSHIP AND THE FATHERS For the Church Fathers, friendship was at the heart of the Gospel. It was the way to salvation and the most effective means of evangelization. God had taken flesh in order to befriend mankind. Jesus had called his Apostles friends. The first Christians, in turn, spread salvation through... |
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