Mary - As The Early Christians Knew HerThe authors opens up "The Gospel of Mary" to see her early life, offering a window into Mary's centrality to the Christian Faith in new and sometimes startling ways. Christians have alternatively raised the status of the mother of Jesus to that of her Son or ignored her entirely. Behind all of the images is a girl who grew up to be the mother of Christ. How did the first Christians view her? What were the commonly understood facts about the Blessed

The works collected in this volume reflect the importance which the Elder consistently attached to prayer

based on a sober appraisal of our lowly condition and of the worldly and demonic influences that assail us

from the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee through to Great and Holy Friday

… Orthodox Dogmatic Theology is his masterpiece

From the Skete of St

Andrew Stephen Damick covers the gamut of ancient heresies

He was adamant

This classic Orthodox commentary on the Gospels was written about the year 1100 A

so that one will not be easily influenced by worldly ways of thinking and behaving

whose pedigree is from the Moscow Conservatory

and the praise of men

During the most difficult times of his life no one ever heard a sound of impatience or grumbling from him—no one saw him downcast