The wind of change blows across regions of the world, multiplying tales of the unexpected. Knowledge is power, but God is the source of all knowledge. This compilation of prayers, quotes, anecdotes, and excerpts homilies, both week days and Sunday homilies, from reputable sources is capable of stabilising the individual in our fast-changing and yet unpredictable world a must-read, I dare say Rev Fr John Gyang Asst: Cathedral Administrator

The Complete Works of the First Fathers of the Church gathers a formative body of early Christian writing: pastoral epistles, martyrial exhortations, apologies, theological treatises, biblical interpretation, ecclesiastical histories, and visionary instruction. Spanning the generations from the apostolic age to late antiquity, it records Christianity's emergence within Jewish, Greek, and Roman intellectual worlds. Particularly compelling are its defenses of Christian belief before pagan cr...

In the prologue, the author recounts a conversation with an apostolic figure about the importance of documenting the life of St. Albinus, a revered bishop. Recognizing the fleeting nature of memory, the author feels compelled to preserve the holy man's legacy, despite their own lack of literary skill. They express admiration for those more capable and seek to contribute, however modestly, to the record of St. Albinus's virtues. The author, Venantius Fortunatus, aims to provide a clear acco...

Radegund was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen of the Merovingian dynasty. She is also remembered as an early Frankish saint of the Catholic Church. Among other accomplishments, she founded the major Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers and Jesus College of Cambridge University. Her biography is told her by the Latin poet St. Venantius Fortunatus, then a hymnographer at the court of the Frankish kings.

Process safety is a blend of engineering and management systems and covers how major hazards arising from process industries are identified, assessed and controlled. This book introduces the basics of process safety from concept selection, design through operation and maintenance in the petroleum industry. It is invaluable for undergraduate students of safety engineering and loss prevention engineers in the hydrocarbon industry.

Radegund was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen of the Merovingian dynasty. She is also remembered as an early Frankish saint of the Catholic Church. Among other accomplishments, she founded the major Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers and Jesus College of Cambridge University. Her biography is told her by the Latin poet St. Venantius Fortunatus, then a hymnographer at the court of the Frankish kings.

St. Germain was the the 6th century bishop of Paris and is venerated as a saint in both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. His work in the Frankish church would help lay the foundation for the various medical, educational, and welfare supports that would aide French civilization throughout the centuries and up until our own time. In more recent years he has been christened the "father of the poor" because of his influence over charitable efforts in the city itself.

The safety measures stated in this book are just generic guidelines and should not be taken as standards. It does not remove the liability from the reader to use sound engineering practice and established standards to make judgments in specific situations he/she encounters.

A village girl in India inspires the women around her to save their beloved forest.One day Aani is resting against her favorite tree when she hears the unfamiliar roar of trucks. She alerts the village women, the eldest of whom says the sounds are made by men from the city who have come to cut down the trees. The women explain to the cutters that their trees provide the villagers with food and fuel; are home to animals; and prevent erosion. But the men are heedless...

St. John Chrysostom was born in the year 349 AD in Antioch. His father died soon after his birth and he was raised by his deeply pious mother. Under her influence St. John became devout as well, and took to studying scripture under the guidance of the bishop of Antioch who would later be the one to baptize him.St. John was drawn to become a monk, and when he mother died he withdrew to the wilderness. There he wrote a number of works on the ascetic life. After a number of years he w...

Athanasius was born in Egypt to a Christian family sometime around 295 AD. He was given a good education by his parents, and in his youth, the local bishop, recognizing his talents, took him on as his aide. As a result he would get the chance to be present at Nicaea for the first Ecumenical council of the church.These works cover the full span of his life, beginning before 319 AD, when he wrote his famous, 'On the Incarnation of the Word'. At the time there were a number of differe...

The Ante-Nicene Period (literally meaning "before Nicaea") in the history of early Christianity was the era following the Apostolic Age of the first century to the First Council of Nicaea in 325. During this period the orthodoxy (right belief) of the faith developed. The authors of the faith are known as the church fathers. They not only defined the faith but wrote against various heresies.Some of the unorthodox beliefs were:Gnosticism (2nd to 4th centuries) – reliance on r...