Fr. John Gavin, S.J., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He specializes in Patristics. He is the author, most recently, of Mysteries of the Lord’s Prayer: Wisdom from the Early Church (CUA Press, 2021) and the forthcoming Growing into God: Christian Maturation and the Fathers of the Church (CUA Press, 2025).