The Refuge: Anchoring the Soul in GodBy St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) Translated by Nicholas Kotar Prayer is a refuge of Gods great mercy to the human race. The refuge is a place of inner stillness and peace where the heart is fully opened to the embrace of Gods love. It is a return to the ancient paradise from which the human race, in Adam, had to depart because of disobedience to the command of God. The Refuge is an exposition of the concrete actions we should take if we truly desire to

and its implications for the future

reminding us of her spotless soul

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was his last work

and helps us to be delivered from passions and to overcome death

will impart a universal enlargement to the heart

–Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia

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A right understanding of Mary

a sixteenth-century luminary of the Russian North

Remember that this is theology in poetry

as well as toward the memorial shrine being built in honor of the Holy Icon