Twenty-second day of Lent

Doctor Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony, chapters 11-20

Twenty-first day of Lent

Doctor Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony, chapters 1-10

Athanasius is known, amongst other things, in the Eastern Church as the "Father of Orthodoxy."  He had an important role at the Council of Nicea.  The Athanasian Creed seems more to be named after him than written by him.

This Saint Anthony is St. Anthony the Great, Desert Father.

Twentieth day of Lent

St. Cyprian on the Unity of the Church, sections 19-27

Nineteenth day of Lent

St. Cyprian on the Unity of the Church, sections 10-18

Eighteenth day of Lent

St. Cyprian on the Unity of the Church, sections 1-9

Seventeeth day of Lent

St. Justin Martyr's first Apology, chapters 60-68

Third Sunday of Lent

No required reading today.  Feast when the Church feasts, fast when the Church fasts.

However, if you want to keep your momentum, I might recommend Book Two of Against Heresies by St. Irenaeus of Lyons, although this treatise is a little long in parts.

Sixteenth day of Lent

St. Justin Martyr's first Apology, chapters 48-59

Fifteenth day of Lent

St. Justin Martyr's first Apology, chapters 36-47

Fourteenth day of Lent

St. Justin Martyr's first Apology, chapters 24-35

Thirteenth day of Lent

St. Justin Martyr's first Apology, chapters 12-23

Twelfth day of Lent

St. Justin Martyr's first Apology, chapters 1-11

Raised a Gentile, Justin sought the tutelage of several Greek schools of philosophy before finding that Christianity best answered his hunger for God.

Eleventh day of Lent

St. Ignatius of Antioch's Epistle to Polycarp

Polycarp, as you've seen by now, was mentioned by Ignatius in his letters to the Magnesians and the Ephesians.

Second Sunday of Lent

No required reading today.  Feast when the Church feasts, fast when the Church fasts.

However, if you want to keep your momentum, I might recommend Book One of Against Heresies by St. Irenaeus of Lyons, although this treatise is a little long in parts.

Tenth day of Lent

St. Ignatius of Antioch's Epistle to the Smyrnaeans

Much of this letter is spent answering the Docetist heresy, which denied the Incarnation.  It is also the first known use of the term "Catholic Church," but with a lack of explanation, suggesting the term was already in common use.

Ninth day of Lent

St. Ignatius of Antioch's Epistle to the Philadelphians

Another of the seven letters written by Ignatius.

This is the Philadelphia in western Turkey and mentioned as one of the seven churches in Revelation, not the city in eastern Pennsylvania, which was called Shackamaxon at the time if it was there to be inhabited by the Lenape that far back.

There's your random trivia for the day.

Eighth day of Lent

St. Ignatius of Antioch's Epistle to the Romans

Another of the seven letters written by Ignatius.

Seventh day of Lent

St. Ignatius of Antioch's Epistle to the Trallians (complete)

Another of his seven letters.

Sixth day of Lent

St. Ignatius of Antioch's Epistle to the Magnesians (complete)

Another of the seven letters written by Ignatius.

Pious tradition holds that Ignatius was the child mentioned in Mark 9:35.

Fifth day of Lent

St. Ignatius of Antioch's Epistle to the Ephesians (complete)

Ignatius, another student of John the Evangelist, was made the third bishop of Antioch by Peter.

This is one of seven letters written by Ignatius on his way to Rome and martyrdom.