Fr Raphael Vereshack
19-06-2006, 04:45 PM
Dear All,
I just came across this massive online source for Patristic texts. It can be accessed from http://www.ewtn.com/vlibrary/search.asp.
For some technical reason that I don't understand (but that's not saying much when it comes to me and PCs) the actual page with the texts doesn't bookmark or at least it didn't with me after repeated tries. So be careful! I almost lost track of the site the first time just by bookmarking.
So to access these texts go the above URL (which does bookmark) and then go to the Library selection list. From this list select: Patristics (Fathers of the Church). Then press the Select button just below. Next will appear a page with the notice 520 Files Found (I said it was massive!) of Patristic texts.
I haven't been able to take more than a first look at these but so far they appear to be fully Orthodox Patristic texts starting from the Apostolic Frs & ending with St Ambrose.
Anyway- happy reading for the next 50 years!
In Christ- Fr Raphael
PS: The texts can be a bit difficult for some to read as they were copied I think by an electronic scanner. I tried copying and pasting one of the texts onto a Word document & this made it much easier to read.
I just came across this massive online source for Patristic texts. It can be accessed from http://www.ewtn.com/vlibrary/search.asp.
For some technical reason that I don't understand (but that's not saying much when it comes to me and PCs) the actual page with the texts doesn't bookmark or at least it didn't with me after repeated tries. So be careful! I almost lost track of the site the first time just by bookmarking.
So to access these texts go the above URL (which does bookmark) and then go to the Library selection list. From this list select: Patristics (Fathers of the Church). Then press the Select button just below. Next will appear a page with the notice 520 Files Found (I said it was massive!) of Patristic texts.
I haven't been able to take more than a first look at these but so far they appear to be fully Orthodox Patristic texts starting from the Apostolic Frs & ending with St Ambrose.
Anyway- happy reading for the next 50 years!
In Christ- Fr Raphael
PS: The texts can be a bit difficult for some to read as they were copied I think by an electronic scanner. I tried copying and pasting one of the texts onto a Word document & this made it much easier to read.