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Mike Aquilina looks at part of the AE that resonates with his Patristics heart: Like everything Benedict does, it’s steeped in the doctrine of the Fathers. He invokes Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Cyprian, Jerome, Augustine, and Chrysostom, as well as the martyrs of Abitina. MIke focuses on the aspects of the document that touch on mystagogical…