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Books:

• The Office of Readings (with patristic selections included) is available in the four-volume edition of the Liturgy of the Hours from the Catholic Book Publishing Company. It may be ordered from your favorite Catholic bookstore or online.
• Mike Aquilina’s book The Fathers of the Church: An Introduction (Our Sunday Visitor, 1999) is a good popular introduction to several of the Fathers with excerpts from some of their writings.
• There are several good multi-volume collections, such as the Ancient Christian Writers series from Paulist Press, the Fathers of the Church series from Catholic University of America Press, and the Ante-Nicene Fathers series, which is also available on CD-ROM.
• For an affordable, one-volume paperback edition containing all the apostolic Fathers mentioned in this article, get Cyril Richardson’s Early Christian Fathers (Macmillan, 1970).

Web sites:

• www.universalis.com: Here one can read the office of readings day by day online, with the second non-biblical reading (usually from the Fathers) included, by going to this Anglican site that follows the Roman liturgical calendar.
• www.crossroadsinitiative.com: At this site, one can access virtually all of the patristic selections from the Office of Readings, order the Liturgy of the Hours, purchase my EWTN series on the early Church Fathers (available on audio CD or DVD), and read articles on the Fathers, some of them as free PDF downloads.
• www.newadvent.org: This site features short biographies of the Fathers of the Church (also available on CD-ROM) from the very fine Catholic Encyclopedia of 1914. One caveat is that there is some important research available now that was not available to the authors of the encyclopedia—notably on St. Hippolytus—so I advise adding a more recent source.