Reddit reviews Ancient Christian Devotional: A Year of Weekly Readings, Lectionary Cycle A

John Chrysostom was awesome:

> The text, "God so loved the world," shows such an intensity of love. For great indeed and infinite is the distance between the two. The immortal, the infinite majesty without beginning or end loved those who were but dust and ashes, who were loaded with ten thousand sins but remained ungrateful even as they constantly offended him. This is who he "loved." For God did not give a servant or an angel or even an archangel "but his only-begotten Son." And yet no one would show such anxiety even for his own child as God did for his ungrateful servants. ... He laid down his life for us and poured forth his precious blood for our sakes-even though there is nothing good in us-while we do not even pour out our money for our own sake and neglect him who died for us when he is naked and a stranger.... We put gold necklaces on ourselves and even on our pets but neglect our Lord who goes about naked and passes from door to door.... He gladly goes hungry so that you may be fed; naked so that he may provide you with the materials for a garment of incorruption, yet we will not even give up any of our own food or clothing for him.... These things I say continually, and I will not cease to say them, not so much because I care for the poor but because I care for your souls. Homilies on the Gospel of John 27:2-3.

EDIT: My friends and I have been studying out of the Ancient Christian Devotional series for a couple of years, and I can't recommend it highly enough! There are three books and it covers the entire lectionary cycle. The quote above was from this week's readings.

One thing that is cool is the Forward Day by Day from the Forward Movement: http://prayer.forwardmovement.org/forward_day_by_day.php?d=28&m=8&y=2017

Year A/B/C Ancient Christian Devotionals: the late Thomas Oden started this series with Year A and others completed the B & C volumes. Year A is the current one until Advent, then we move to Year B. Might be a cool addition to your prayer practices.

A: https://smile.amazon.com/Ancient-Christian-Devotional-Readings-Lectionary/dp/0830834311/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503944031&sr=8-1&keywords=0830834311

B: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JZ33AK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

C: https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Christian-Devotional-Lectionary-Cycle-ebook/dp/B002Y289F0/ref=pd_sim_351_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FXX2DCV93YCEDYC4778N