Introduction

Merry Christmas everybody. It's wonderful to see you, so many familiar faces or masks and some new masks also. I thought I'd do something a little different this time instead of reading from the Sermon on the Mount. This book is called The Chapters on Prayer, The Practicals and Chapters on Prayer by Evagreus Ponticus. If that sounds like a character from Asterix and Obelix, you wouldn't be wrong. He was an ancient Roman, more about him later. Oh, leaders from the Unreal to the Real, leaders from darkness and to light, leaders from death to immortality.