Psalm 118: A Commentary (by St. Theophan the Recluse)St. Theophan the Recluse trans. Archpriest Gleb Wleskov; edited by Seraphim Englehardt After nearly 30 years of engagement with this text, we are delighted at long last to make it available to the faithful in permanent library form. Each reading (and there have been many) has deepened our appreciation of the profundity of the commentary, which never succumbs to the temptation of mere academicism. It is a book which can be read from beginning to end or

together with Scripture and subject indexes to aid the reader

The book A night in the desert of the Holy Mountain was Metropolitan Hierotheos’s first book and is still unsurpassed in inspiration and popularity

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but women's monasteries have their own special flavor

originals from 1670 by Simon Ushakov

Asceticism is always linked with the Holy Mysteries

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Thus his own life experience disposed him to reflect on the meaning of suffering for human existence and how through it we might find “a harbor for our hope

Yet this illness became his secret path to holiness and everlasting joy in Christ

has been identified on the basis of other witnesses as Russian Orthodox monk Archimandrite Mikhail Kozlov