A Word from the Holy Fathers

A Word from the Holy Fathers


St. Cyprian on Cain, Abel, and True Self-Sacrifice

September 27, 2013

What are we to make of the Genesis account of Cain and Abel? In this broadcast, Archimandrite Irenei examines a portion of St Cyprian of Carthage’s Treatise on the Lord’s Prayer that shows forth Abel as the first martyr, the example of true self-sacrifice. And it is a lesson with a practical aim: the quenching of anger and hatred, and the discovery of a life offered more wholly to God.
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