Listen to the Fathers. Episode 1. St Basil the Great.

A quiet reading from St. Basil the Great, offered in a calm voice with gentle background music for rest, prayer, reflection, or sleep. Part of Listen to the Fathers: audio readings from the Eastern Orthodox Fathers. The audio includes selections from these writings of St. Basil the Great: 1. Praise of the Psalms 2. Letter II: Basil to Gregory, on Quiet and Prayer 3. On Fasting 4. Letter CCVII: On Common Prayer and Psalmody 5. Hexaemeron, Homily I: In the Beginning God Made the Heaven and the Earth 6. Hexaemeron, Homily II: The Earth Was Invisible and Unfinished 7. Hexaemeron, Homily III: On the Firmament 8. Hexaemeron, Homily IV: The Gathering Together of the Waters 9. Hexaemeron, Homily V: The Germination of the Earth