ancient christian devotional

My friend gave me an interesting book and I'll mention it here as I know some who read are interested in that sort of thing.

I've been using the lectionary as a guide to devotional readings. It give me a skeleton to work from and I can add to it.

My friend gave this to me as a birthday present, knowing I would appreciate it. He was right, I'm enjoying it.
It's Ancient Christian Devotional; a Year of Weekly Readings.. It's published by IVP which surprised me, under the formatio imprint.

The book takes the lectionary readings and starts with the church's new year, Advent. A very short commentary from an ancient writer is given , two or three for each reading. At the end, an ancient prayer has been printed. Many of the writers I recognised, but there were many from the fourth and fifth centuries that I had never heard of. There is an index with a few, very brief notes on each source cited.

I've had the book for only a couple of days but am enjoying using it. Another link to Christians before me, the communion of saints.