What is the Company of the Fathers?

To remind you all (and to explain to the couple of new people I've invited) what the Company of the Fathers is, here are three links to follow:

1) Here's the original letter I sent out when I started the Company back in 2005; it partly summarizes the desire I had (and still have) to read the Fathers and explains why. Re-reading it gets me excited all over again to keep this up: http://www.hillabbey.org/company.html

2) Here is the first post on the original blog welcoming everyone and more briefly explaining what the Company is all about: http://www.hillabbey.org/societaspatrum/2005/12/welcome-to-company-of-fathers.html

3) And here is a very short note of appeal regarding how we should be reading these Fathers: http://www.hillabbey.org/societaspatrum/2005/12/two-more-very-important-things.html