Accessing the Texts & Translations
The texts and translations on this site can be freely copied and used in any manner the user desires. Nothing is copyrighted. We would appreciate, however, an acknowledgement of the source from which you have obtained the text. It would help spread the word to a wider audience. Our desire is for these texts to be used far and wide.
It is important to remember that no church father ever wrote a treatise specifically on the Eucharist in the centuries covered by this site (1-8). The first such treatise was written in the ninth century. The texts in centuries 1-8 are all the more important because they were embedded in other themes and texts. Taken together, they demonstrate the profound faith of the church in the Eucharist during these first eight centuries.
The texts can be accessed by author, text name, or date range. For example, if you wish to have all of Augustine’s eucharistic texts, you simply type his name in the search box (or click on his name in the list of Latin fathers). If you know the name of a specific texts like The Confessions or Commentary on John, you may type it into the search box. If more than one author wrote a work by that title, all of them will appear. If you wish to have all the works in a specific time frame, say 300-450, type in the dates and all the fathers in both languages (Greek and Latin) will appear.