83. Habits of the Ancient Christians with Frederica Mathewes-Green
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We often hear about repentance, fasting, and prayer, but what do these practices look like in everyday life? Fredrica Mathewes-Green, author of The Illumined Heart, has wealth of knowledge on the rhythms of daily worship that were a part of the early church and how we can learn from them. This episode dives deep into the spiritual practices that we all crave, but don't always know how to do.
Frederica Mathewes-Green Show Notes:
Ancient Faith Ministries Website: https://www.ancientfaith.com/
The Illumined Heart by Fredrica Mathewes-Green: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-illumined-heart-frederica-mathewes-green/1112023117?ean=9781612611679
Other Books by Fredrica Mathewes-Green: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Frederica%20Mathewes%20Green
The Didache: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0714.htm
The Jesus Prayer by Fredrica Mathewes-Green: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/jesus-prayer-frederica-mathewes-green/1100379580?ean=9781557256591
Saint Paisios of Mount Athos by Hieromonk Isaac: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Paisios-Mount-Athos-Hieromonk/dp/9608976456
Books about Saint Porphyrios: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=porphyrios&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
St. Matrona the Blind: https://www.acrod.org/readingroom/saints/stmatrona
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. |
| 0:13.6 | And I'm your co-host, Erin Kunkel. |
| 0:18.8 | Today on the Strong Women podcast, we have with us, Frederica Matthews Green, and we are so thrilled |
| 0:25.2 | that she's chosen to spend this time with us. |
| 0:27.6 | But let me just tell you a tiny bit about Frederica before we jump into our conversation |
| 0:31.9 | with her. |
| 0:33.2 | Frederica is a prolific writer and speaker. |
| 0:37.3 | And she speaks and writes about a variety of topics, |
| 0:41.2 | all the way from, in fact, on her website, which is ancient faith ministries, you guys all |
| 0:46.8 | need to go check this out because she writes a ton on there. She's got like anywhere from |
| 0:51.0 | movie reviews all the way back to ancient Christian traditions. So |
| 0:55.6 | there's a wide variety that she enjoys to think and speak about. But we wanted to talk to |
| 1:02.6 | her specifically about her book, The Illuminated Heart, which deals a lot with spiritual |
| 1:09.6 | disciplines and kind of some early Christian practices that sometimes we overlook in our modern world and maybe misunderstand. |
| 1:19.6 | So we wanted to have a conversation with her about that. |
| 1:24.3 | Frederica has been married for 47 years, which, I just feel like we all need to stop. |
| 1:30.4 | Say, congratulations. You've arrived at 47 years. They have three children. And with those three |
| 1:39.5 | children, they have 15 grandchildren. So what a full house. |
| 1:45.2 | It's beautiful. |
| 1:45.8 | Okay, thanks for coming, Frederica. |
| 1:47.9 | Thank you. |
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