Book of Donmon Teith

`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down i

An accessible guide to the lives and teaching of the earliest Christian monks, largely using their own words.

Sister Benedicta notes in her Introduction that ‘the virtues and obligations inherent in the gospel for all are presented in the literature of the desert in s

The words of the 4th-century monastics who founded the Desert Rule