HELP TRANSCRIBE THE CLASSICS OF CHRISTIAN PATRISTIC LITERATURE!
THE ST. PACHOMIUS LIBRARY seeks to make the literature of the
early Christian Church available to all in electronic form --
for free!
You can help our work either by volunteering as a scribe
(see below) or by providing direct financial support for our
indexing project and free online patristic Bible commentary.
If you would be interested in making a
monetary donation to support the purchase of dedicated
hardware and the salary of a full-time staffer, please
contact redingtn@pobox.com .
for further information.
We also continue to maintain our popular scribal transcription
program, in spite of the now general availability of
scanners. Many scribes have found the work to be
enjoyable and beneficial.
Here's how it works:
- We (Karen & Dionysios, the project administrators) will select
a text. (More on choice of texts below).
- We will divide the text into sections of about one printed
page each.
- We will snail-mail one section to each volunteer.
- Sometime in the next month, the volunteer will type his or
her section as an ASCII file, and e-mail it to us.
- We will send back an acknowledgement and ask if the volunteer
wants another section. No-one will receive more than one section
per month unless they request it.
- We will edit together all the sections, and post them to our
central archive on the Worldwide Web Orthodox Christian Page:
http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage
and to as many other virtual libraries, newsgroups, etc. as
may be interested.
Concerning choice of texts. They will be:
- Translations of Greek and Latin Church Fathers; rare and ancient
liturgical texts; lives of the saints; documents pertaining to the
first thousand years of Christian history.
- Copyright Free: either items which have passed into public domain
because of age, or ones which the copyright holder has given
permission in writing for us to use.
Concerning our name and affiliation:
- The St. Pachomius Library is administered by Orthodox Christians,
but has no formal institutional affiliation. All persons interested
in the early Church are invited to participate.
- Abba Pachomius was the founder of organized monasticism. He lived in
Egypt in the 4th Century. We chose this name because of the role
which monks have traditionally played in transcribing and preserving
Christian literature through the centuries.
Anyone interested in being a scribe
please contact us by e-mail.
May God through the prayers of the holy Pachomius grant that by prayerfully
undertaking this work, we may serve His Church and save our souls!
Karen Rae Keck
Dionysios Redington
redingtn@pobox.com