I picked up this book by St. John Chrysostom because I love a quote of his about prayer that I found in another book, and I thought a book focused more inwardly after reading autobiographies about revolutionaries would be a good shift for my mind and spirit. While there were some bits and pieces that provided me with helpful reflections and thoughts, I would not recommend this book to very many people. This collection of homilies and sermons is wrought with problematic views of gender that are likely telling of the time and/or the reality that a single man is writing about marriage. I wish I could find a work from St. John Chrysostom focused directly on prayer, but I have been unable to find such a thing.

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