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This classic work from the fourth century expounds with simplicity the theological vision defended at the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople, and it has become one of the few “must read” books about the Christian faith.

to us today. Until very recently, however, little of his work had been available in English, save for some collections of brief reflections arranged in centuries and a few brief treatises, too easily classified as “spirituality.” This volume provides translations from St Maximus’ two main collections of theological reflections, his Ambigua (or Difficulties) and his Questions to Thalassius, plus one of his Christological opuscula, hitherto unavailable in English.

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Saint Nicholas and the Nine Gold Coins

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On the Incarnation

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ST ATHANASIUS THE GREAT JOHN BEHR, TRANS.

On Marriage and Family Life

JIM FOREST VLADISLAV ANDREJEV, ILLUSTRATOR

This book reacquaints boys and girls with the authentic Santa Claus—St Nicholas, a man who found greatness in being a true icon of Jesus Christ in word and deed.

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On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ

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ST MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR PAUL M. BLOWERS & ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN, TRANS.

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Christian tradition often seems to give only grudging approval to married life, particularly its sexual aspect. In these sermons of St John Chrysostom we find an important corrective to this view. Although himself a monk, Chrysostom had a profound understanding of the needs of his congregation. Inspired by the Epistles to the Corinthians and Ephesians, he discusses the reasons God instituted marriage. Chrysostom goes on to discuss sexual relations, the mutual responsibilities of marriage, and parenting.

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On the Apostolic Preaching ST IRENAEUS OF LYONS JOHN BEHR, TRANS.

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The Orthodox Way, now a classic, is a general account of the doctrine, worship, and life of Orthodox Church.

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ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

St Irenaeus was, undisputedly, the most important theologian of the second century who laid a firmer foundation for all future Christian thinkers. Both in his work, Against the Heresies, and in this present study, Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, St Irenaeus explains that there is but one God, made known to the human race by His one Son, Jesus Christ, through the one Holy Spirit, and this one God brings His creatures made from dust into intimate communion with Himself. Writing in an age not unlike our own, among a plethora of religions and diverse gods, he exhorts his readers to hold fast to Scripture, which recounts the deeds that bring them into the covenant established by God.

The Orthodox Way

For the Life of the World

In this book, Schmemann suggests an approach to the world and life within it that stems from the liturgical experience of the Orthodox Church. This updated edition of Schmemann’s classic text includes a new foreword by Dr Edith M. Humphrey, along with new explanatory notes and an index.

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The Winter Pascha THOMAS HOPKO

“When the winter begins to make way into the Northern World, the Church of Christ begins to celebrate a ‘splendid three-day Pascha.’” Thus Fr Thomas Hopko begins the first of forty meditations for the season of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, ending with the feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple on the fortieth day after Christ’s birth. In the style of his popular book for the paschal fasting season, The Lenten Spring, the author draws on the biblical readings and liturgical hymns and verses of the season to illumine the way for believers to enter fully into the reality of the coming of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in human flesh. Many references are made to the writings of the saints and Church Fathers, as well as to contemporary Christian teachers and spiritual guides.

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ST EPHREM THE SYRIAN SEBASTIAN BROCK, TRANS.

ST GREGORY THE GREAT GEORGE E. DEMACOPOULOS, TRANS.

In his cycle of fifteen hymns on Paradise, St Ephrem the Syrian weaves a profound theological synthesis around the biblical narrative in Genesis 2 and 3, expressing his awareness of the sacramental character of the created world.

Recognized as the most thorough pastoral treatise of the patristic era, this sixth-century work carefully details the duties and obligations of the clergy concerning the spiritual formation of their flock.

The Book of Pastoral Rule

Hymns on Paradise

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ST BASIL THE GREAT STEPHEN HILDEBRAND, TRANS.

VLADIMIR LOSSKY

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The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church

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In this classic study of Orthodox theology, the author states that “in a certain sense all theology is mystical, inasmuch as it shows forth the divine mystery: the data of revelation. The eastern tradition has never made a sharp distinction between mysticism and theology, between personal experience and the divine mysteries and the dogma affirmed by the Church. The term “mystical theology” denotes the realm of human experience, that which is accessible yet inaccessible; those things understood yet surpassing all knowledge.

St Gregory of Nazianzus says that this treatise—a classic expression of the Church’s faith in the Spirit and a lasting testimony to St Basil’s Christian erudition—was “written by a pen borrowed from the Spirit’s store.”

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Rich in its references to the teachings of the saints and Fathers, Unseen Warfare combines the insights of West and East on that spiritual combat that is the road to perfection and the stripping away of

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all that militates against it. Saint Theophan wrote in his foreword that “the arena, the field of battle, the site where the fight actually takes place is our own heart and all our inner man. The time of battle is our whole life.”

for the good of the holy Church and the salvation of her faithful children.”

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The Bible and the Holy Fathers for Orthodox

Letters to Cledonius

JOHANNA MANLEY, EDITOR

• The Five Theological Orations and Two On God and Christ

ST GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS FREDERICK WILLIAMS & LIONEL WICKHAM, TRANS.

This English translation aims to capture for the present-day reader something of the atmosphere of intellectual excitement and spiritual exhilaration experienced by St Gregory’s first listeners as he expounded the doctrine of God in Trinity.

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Based on the sequence of daily scriptural readings (NKJV) from the liturgical calendar of the Orthodox Church, this resource includes comments from the Church Fathers on each epistle and gospel passage. Sections of the Old Testament are also included to support the church lectionary for major feast days, Great Lent, and Holy Week. Writings from contemporary Orthodox theologians and scholars are included. The life and tradition of the Church inform the personal meditations on Scripture and attune the reader to the annual, rhythmic cycle of fasts and feasts. This work will surely be considered a must-have for Orthodox believers.

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PREPARE, O BETHLEHEM:

A reflection on the feast of the Nativity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminar y Associate Professor of Patristics and Popular Patristics Series (PPS) editor, F R B O G D A N B U C U R As Orthodox Christians prepare to celebrate Christmas, they have the privilege of (re-)learning their theology from the rich hymnography of the Church. Rather than melancholy dreaming of a white Christmas, a “magic” season populated by Santa and his elves, Coca Cola, hot chocolate, and lots and lots of shopping, the hymns speak of the overwhelmingly good news of a Nativity surpassing understanding: Today is born of a virgin He who holds the whole creation in His hand. He whose essence none can touch is bound in swaddling clothes as a mortal man. God, who in the beginning fashioned the heavens, lies in a manger. He who rained manna on his people in the wilderness is fed on milk from His mother’s breast. The Bridegroom of the Church summons the wise men; the Son of the virgin accepts their gifts. … We worship Thy birth, O Christ! … (Eve of the Nativity, sticheron at the Ninth Royal Hour). A baby born in poverty, wrapped in swaddling clothes, sucking milk at His mother’s breasts—one of us! The point, however, is that this baby is also the Maker and Fashioner of the universe (“who holds creation in the hollow of His hand,” “who established the heavens”); also the Lord God of Israel, who freed his people from slavery, led it and fed it miraculously in the desert; also the light of all mankind, who summons the pagan stargazers, and, as another hymn (the Nativity troparion) says, taught them to worship the sun of righteousness rising in Bethlehem. This baby, we are told, is the Bridegroom of the Church, and, as we have promised at Baptism, we bow down to Him in worship. The icon of the Nativity—as a matter of fact, any icon of Christ— teaches the same truth, by showing a halo around the baby’s head, inscribed with Greek letters spelling “He Who Is.” This is the name that God reveals to Moses on Mount Sinai: ego eimi ho ōn, “he who is,” “the existing one,” the one beyond being. We learn the same truth, yet again, from the worship of the Church: “Today the Virgin gives birth to the One beyond being”!

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We all have an opportunity to leave the frantic rush to get the sweetest deals, the perfect gift, the most creative decorations, and to allow our liturgical worship to collect our minds and hearts, to assist us in drawing near and directing our gaze on the mystery: Open to me the gates, and entering within, I shall see as a child wrapped in swaddling clothes Him who upholds the creation in the hollow of His hand … (Vespers of the Forefeast of the Nativity, Apostichon); A strange and most wonderful mystery do I see: the cave is heaven; the Virgin—the throne of the cherubim (Canon of the Nativity: Ode 9, Eirmos). As the Law given at Sinai had to be spoken again and again across the generations, Scripture itself helped its hearers understand that God’s call did not lie in the past and in some other place: “Not with our ancestors did the Lord establish this covenant, but with you—all of you here, who are alive today” (Deut 5.3). So also with the stranger and even more wonderful mystery of the Son one-in-essence with the Father taking on flesh of our flesh and becoming one of us: we do not sing to remember the little town of Bethlehem two thousand years ago. It is for us that the call goes out: Prepare, O Bethlehem, for Eden has been opened to all!

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Saint Gregory Palamas’ Triads (Greek & English)

ST GREGORY PALAMAS; ALEXANDER TITUS, TRANS.

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WATCH R E V . D R B O G D A N B U C U R (PPS Editor) and D R A L E X A N D E R T I T U S (PPS 5 translator) reNOW: flect on the theological and spiritual tradition synthesized and defended by St Gregory Palamas, the “Palamite” theological legacy, and other considerations at the intersection of biblical exegesis, spirituality, and doctrine, as related to the upcoming PPS 5, Saint Gregory Palamas’ Triads.

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VERA BOUTENEFF, TRANS. PETER BOUTENEFF, NARRATOR

The stories of Fr Arseny and his work in the Soviet prison camps have captured the minds and hearts of readers all over the world. In this second volume readers will find additional narratives about Fr Arseny translated from the Russian edition. These short stories about the life and impact of Fr Arseny during the cruel oppression of the Soviet years are vivid, stirring, and ultimately inspiring.

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On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ ST MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR PAUL M. BLOWERS & ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN, TRANS. JONAH MARTIN, NARRATOR

Saint Maximus is considered by many the greatest of all Byzantine theologians, with a wholeness of vision that speaks directly to us today. This collection includes some of his works in English for the first time.

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Hymns of Repentance

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On Pascha ST MELITO OF SARDIS ALISTAIR STEWART, TRANS. PHILLIP RITCHEY, NARRATOR

This newly revised collection features the original Greek text and an updated translation of On Pascha by Melito of Sardis, a liturgical work deriving from Quartodeciman circles in Asia Minor. It provides remarkably early evidence—c. AD 190—for the theology and liturgical practices of the Church in a formative era.

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ST ROMANOS THE MELODIST ANDREW MELLAS, TRANS. JONAH MARTIN, NARRATOR

Saint Romanos straddled the worlds of antiquity and Byzantium, and his hymns are a unique fusion of classical rhetoric, Syriac poetry, and the theology of the Cappadocian Fathers. These hymns invite an encounter with biblical events within the liturgical experience, amplifying moments of desire, sadness, and joy. This volume brings together a selection of Romanos’ hymns about repentance, which were sung in church during Lent and explore the story of the prodigal son, the crucifixion of Christ, and other important themes.

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Ecclesiastical Mystagogy ST MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR JONATHAN J. ARMSTRONG, TRANS. JONAH MARTIN, NARRATOR

Saint Maximus expounds the meaning of the Divine Liturgy, profoundly influencing later Fathers in doing so. Maximus’ vision of the liturgy contemplates the inter-penetrating relationships of all things with one another and with Christ, in whom all things cohere.

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ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM CATHARINE P. ROTH AND DAVID ANDERSON, TRANS. JONAH MARTIN, NARRATOR

Although himself a monk, Chrysostom had a profound understanding of the needs of his congregation. Inspired by the Epistles to the Corinthians and Ephesians, he discusses the reasons God instituted marriage. Chrysostom goes on to discuss sexual relations, the mutual responsibilities of marriage, and parenting.

Sacraments of Healing

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MET. KALLISTOS WARE

Great Lent

JONAH MARTIN, NARRATOR

From April 16 to 19, 1999, Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) led a retreat for the Orthodox Peace Fellowship at the parish of St Étienne and St Germain in Vézelay, France; this slender book is a transcription of his six profound and moving talks. His Eminence treats of man as microcosm; the proper use of the passions; Christ as Physician (the true meaning of Confession and Anointing); peace and healing in the Divine Liturgy; healing in the parish, the local Church, and the world; and bodily death as an experience of healing.

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ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN PETER BOUTENEFF, NARRATOR

This revised edition of Fr Alexander Schmemann’s lenten classic examines the meaning of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, the Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian, the Canon of St Andrew of Crete, and other neglected or misunderstood treasures of lenten worship. Schmemann draws on the Church’s sacramental and liturgical tradition to suggest the meaning of “Lent in our life.”

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Our Father

VERA BOUTENEFF, TRANS. VERA BOUTENEFF & PETER BOUTENEFF, NARRATORS

This narrative, compiled from accounts of Fr Arseny’s spiritual children and others whom he brought to God, gives stirring glimpses of his life in the brutal “special sector” of Soviet prison camp and after his release.

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ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN ALEXANDER HATCHER, NARRATOR

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This commentary on the Lord’s Prayer has been compiled from a series of broadcasts made by Fr Alexander Schmemann on Radio Liberty to listeners in the Soviet Union. Because this single short prayer of Christ has everything that needs to be said about God, His kingdom, this life— about all of us—it is not an exaggeration to suggest that in this commentary Fr Schmemann provides us with a map for seeing anew the purpose and measure of our whole life. He awakens in us a fresh understanding of these familiar petitions.

On the Incarnation

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ST ATHANASIUS THE GREAT JOHN BEHR, TRANS. JONAH MARTIN, NARRATOR

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The Orthodox Way,

On the Orthodox Faith

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ST JOHN OF DAMASCUS NORMAN RUSSELL, TRANS. IGNATIUS GREEN, NARRATOR

KALLISTOS WARE JONAH MARTIN, NARRATOR

Considered by many to be the final and crowning work of the patristic age, On the Orthodox Faith addresses all the major areas of Christian belief: Trinitarian theology; Christology; soteriology; the sacraments; the veneration of icons, saints, and relics; and much more.

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For the Life of the World,

Classics Series Edition, Volume 1 ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN ZACHARIAH MANDELL, NARRATOR

This audiobook (narrated by Alexander Schmemann’s great-grandson, Zachary Mandell) on an approach to the world and life within it stems from the liturgical experience of the Orthodox Church. The author understands issues such as secularism and Christian culture from the perspective of the unbroken experience of the Church, as revealed and communicated in her worship, in her liturgy—the sacrament of the world, the sacrament of the kingdom.

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The most ancient name for Christianity, Metropolitan Kallistos reminds us, is “the Way” (cf. Acts 19.23; 24.22), and it is precisely as the journey that this word implies that he presents the tradition of Orthodox Christianity, its teachings, and its practices. The result is not an abstract presentation of “Orthodoxy,” an outside look at, or description of, its dogmatics, rituals, and ascetic disciplines, compared to and contrasted with others, but an invitation to enter into the way, to begin the journey— and to do so always, into eternity—into the mystery of God through the living experience of the Orthodox Church.

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A Silent Patriarch DANIEL FANOUS JONAH MARTIN, NARRATOR

This is the first scholarly biography of the desert hermit who became a most unlikely patriarch. It traces Kyrillos VI’s life from childhood, drawing upon hundreds of letters and sources never before seen, detailing Kyrillos’ unusual method of ecclesial reform, which speaks enduringly to the uncertainties of the present age.

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Money & Salvation:

An Invitation to the Good Way ANDREW GELERIS, AUTHOR & NARRATOR

“... I recommend to all parish clergy and lay leaders that they prayerfully read Money & Salvation and work to teach and exhort our faithful to give generously as commanded by our Lord—not only for the building up of our churches but for their own salvation. With gratitude to Dr Geleris for this well-written and well-researched work, and prayers that it will be for the good of the holy Church and the salvation of her faithful children.” —Met. JOSEPH, Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

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Headings on Spiritual Knowledge: The Second Part, Chapters 1–3 ST ISAAC OF NINEVEH SEBASTIAN BROCK, TRANS. VICTOR CLARKE, NARRATOR

For the first time in English, the world-renowned scholar Sebastian Brock has given us a translation of the first three chapters of the “second part” of St Isaac of Nineveh’s corpus. In them, Isaac recounts the various experiences and stages of the spiritual life.

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Two Hundred Chapters on Theology

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On the Mother of God JACOB OF SERUG MARY HANSBURY, TRANS. KRISTINA WENGER, NARRATOR

Jacob, “flute of the Holy spirit and harp of the faithful Church,” has a great love of the Mother of God. In this volume, four homilies have been chosen from the Syriac texts. The poetry is typological and rooted in Scripture. It offers, as Professor Brock notes in his introduction, an alternative to the “liberal critical approach to the Bible” or to an excessively fundamentalist approach.

ST MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR LUIS JOSHUA SALÉS, TRANS JONAH MARTIN, NARRATOR

The Chapters on Theology is one of Maximus’ most eclectic writings. Maximus discusses many diverse themes, including God’s relation to the cosmos, monastic discipline and life, and scriptural difficulties; and his vision of the consummated universe in relation to the incarnate Word of God.

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On Death and Eternal Life

On the Apostolic Tradition

ST GREGORY OF NYSSA BRIAN DALEY, TRANS. JONAH MARTIN, NARRATOR

ST HIPPOLYTUS ALISTAIR STEWART, TRANS. ALEXANDER HATCHER, NARRATOR

This work is attributed to Hippolytus, a Christian leader from third-century Rome. The text provides liturgical information of great antiquity, and has been massively influential in liturgical study and reform. The second edition of this crucial liturgical document continues Stewart’s influential work of re-evaluating the evolution of hierarchy in the early Church. In addition, this new edition is the first to incorporate a recently discovered Ethiopian manuscript, which in many cases has helped to clarify ambiguities in the text.

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The seven works in this volume explore the great human mystery of death and the promise of eternal life. They present—along with On the Soul and the Resurrection (PPS 12)—a vision that is consistent, philosophically profound, and characteristic of Gregory’s wider theology. The first three works might be termed thematic essays; the fourth is a sermon celebrating Christ’s Resurrection; and the remaining three are funeral homilies given for prominent people in Constantinople.

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Moved by Compassion JOHN JONES JOHN JONES, NARRATOR

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ST HIPPOLYTUS ALISTAIR STEWART, TRANS. PETER BOUTENEFF, NARRATOR

Though compassion lies at the heart of the gospel, it has been little studied in its own right. This book, written by an accomplished scholar yet accessible to the lay reader, fills that void by drawing on the broad and ancient tradition of the Orthodox Church.

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“ A Voice for Our Time Radio Liberty Talks, Volume 2

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN; ALEXIS VINOGRADOV & NATHAN WILLIAMS, TRANS.; ZACHARIAH MANDELL, NARRATOR

“... Always clear, powerful, profound, faithful to the truth of the gospel, his voice broke through the iron curtain and changed people’s perspectives on human and divine realities.... He spoke from heart to heart, and thousands were touched by this unique, very personal and unrepeatable voice.” —Met. Hilarion Alfeyev

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The Choice of Orthodoxy DANIEL DALY

Both Rome and the Orthodox Church claim to be the Church Christ founded—the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church of the Nicene Creed. How can we judge between these competing claims? This useful and accessible book helps readers to do just that. For those who are seeking a spiritual home, Fr Daniel Daly can show the way. For those who are seeking the truth, this book makes a compelling case for the choice of Orthodoxy.

For You are above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name being named, not only in this age but also in the coming one. Beside You stand a thousand thousands and a myriad myriads of angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers. Beside You stand the two most-honored, six-winged seraphim. With two wings they cover the face, and with two the feet, and with two they fly, sanctifying. With them receive also our sanctification as we say: Holy, holy, holy Lord of Sabaoth; heaven and earth are full of Your glory. Full is heaven and full also is the earth of Your majestic glory, Lord of powers. Fill also this sacrifice with Your power and with Your participation. For to You we offered this living sacrifice, the unbloody offering.”

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The Prayers of Saint Sarapion the Bishop of Thmuis (Greek & English)

ST SARAPION OF THMUIS MAXWELL E. JOHNSON, TRANS.

St Sarapion, a friend of St Anthony the Great and St Athanasius, first lived as a monk and abbot in the Egyptian desert before becoming bishop of Thmuis. This is a translation of the Euchologion (or prayer book) of St Sarapion, which contains thirty prayers for Baptism, the Liturgy, and several other needs and situations. This edition includes the original Greek along with the translation.

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Jacob of Serug was born at Curtem on the Euphrates, c. 451. Jacob, “flute of the Holy Spirit and harp of the faithful Church,” has a great love of the Mother of God. In this volume, four homilies have been chosen from the Syriac texts.

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The Choice of Orthodoxy:

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Mediation and the Immediate God

Scriptures, the Church, and Knowing God

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Mediation and the Immediate God pursues a long-debated question: How can we say both that God has a direct relationship with each Christian, and that He uses others in order to bring us to health and glory? Edith M. Humphrey explores the ubiquity of mediation in the Christian life, and in life in general, as well as the paradox of mediation alongside the Christian confidence that each of us can be directly “taught by

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God” because of the gift of the Holy Spirit. Mediation, says Humphrey, is understood best as an ecclesial matter (showing the nature of the Church) and not as part of a soteriological debate.

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St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly Volume 66 (2022), Nos. 3–4

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The Winter 2022 issue of the Quarterly opens with an exegetical study of the refence to “the sign of Jonah” in the Gospel of Matthew (L. Gore-Jones). There follow two articles on Gregory of Nyssa—one on his reading of the burning bush in Life of Moses (T. Buijkx), the second on the relationship between humanity’s creation “according to the Image” and St Gregory’s use of the imagery of food and hunger (A. Fogleman/Th. Breedlove). A study of Byzantine prayers to the Theotokos ascribed to St Ephrem (M. Constas) and an analysis of Origen’s pneumatology (M. Therrien) complete the patristic segment of this issue. A large article follows, comparing the insights of Sergius Bulgakov (and a number of other Orthodox theologians) and Yves Congar on the role of the Holy Spirit in the relationship between the Father and the Son (A. Vivier-Mureșan). The last article deals with the ambiguous Orthodox reception of the section on Baptism in the 1982 “Lima Declaration” on Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry (H. Majkrzak). The “Theological Essay” section of this issue contains a short, moving, and

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refreshing “Orthodox Creed” composed in the late 1980s by the Romanian literate, dissident, and later monastic Nicolae Steinhardt; and a consideration of the 19th-century Transylvanian Metropolitan Andrei Şaguna’s understanding of synodality as a form of a constitutionalism, in which clergy and laity cooperate (D. Heith-Stade). Reviews of the following books round off this volume of SVTQ: Θεία Λειτουργία κατά την τάξιν εν Άθω Μονής του Βατοπαιδίου – Ιερατικόν Συλλειτουργόν (The Divine Liturgy according to the order of the Vatopedi Monastery on Athos—Hieratikon for Concelebrations) 2020 (P. Pruteanu);

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As I was crying, I saw the icon of the all-holy Mother of God standing above the place where I stood. And I said to her, ‘Virgin, Mother of God, Lady, who gave birth to God the Word in the flesh, I know, indeed I know, that it is nether fitting or reasonable for someone so defiled, so utterly prodigal, to look at the icon of you, the Ever-Virgin ... But since it came about that God was born from you as a man for this reason that He might call sinners to repentance, help me, a lone woman who has no one to help her. Command that I, too, may be allowed entrance. ...’ As I said all this, I received the fire of faith as a kind of assurance and, emboldened by the compassion of the Mother of God, I moved myself from the place where I had been standing to make my prayer, and went again and mingled among those who were entering...”

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Saint Ia Rides a Leaf recounts a beloved miracle from the life of an early Celtic missionary to Cornwall. Ia experiences a range of emotions in this story, going from anticipation to doubt, then grief, and then renewed faith and joyful hope.

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In this book, young readers encounter a Russian hermit who has to solve a problem: he has run out of food. In the end, and with a little help from some friendly fishermen, he manages to fill his cups.

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Join Moscata, a friendly and informative dog, who leads readers through an Orthodox women’s monastery. Enjoy the beautiful illustrations as you meet the nuns and explore the church, the candle factory, the cemetery, and the grounds. Find out how the nuns work and pray, what they wear, how they serve Christ, and why they have chosen the monastic life.

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Images of Christ, cast as shadows in Old Testament texts, illuminate this book of biblical prophecy for young and old alike. Illustrator Niko Chocheli creates a stunning graphic dialog between the voice of the prophets and the coming Christ who eternally rests in their words. The Son of Man whom Daniel saw in night visions, the Branch of Jesse whom Isaiah saw shoot forth, and the apparitions of other prophets emerge as vivid icons of our Lord.

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The Orthodox Church’s hymns of the prefeast and feast of the Nativity of our Lord celebrate and proclaim in word and song the celestial joy of the incarnation. These beloved texts, so wonderfully illustrated by Niko Chocheli, are filled with beauty and power.

The Praises NIKO CHOCHELI

The Praises invites everyone and everything in the whole creation to praise the Lord: the angels, animals, and natural elements, with every living thing headed and cared for by human beings of every age, gender, class, and nation.

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North Star: St Herman of Alaska

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In this charming volume, author and illustrator Dorrie Papademetriou captures the divine spark that shone in the monk Herman and reflects it across the pages. The world of St Herman and the Aleuts comes alive in vibrant illustrations while readers are warmed by the words of this human heart aflame with divine love.

Following the story of the Virgin Mary’s childhood as it is told in church tradition and apocryphal texts, this brilliantly illustrated children’s book was inspired by the famous mosaics in the Monastery of Chora (the Kariye Djami) in Istanbul, Turkey.

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The Man and the Vine

Every Vespers service in the Orthodox Church begins with the reading of Psalm 104. This psalm of David celebrates the goodness and beauty of the created world and affirms the timeless importance of stewardship and love for all that God has provided.

JANE G. MEYER NED GANNON, ILLUSTRATOR

This rhythmical, festive children’s book tells of the joy of a farmer and his little daughter as they work their vineyard and offer the fruit of the vine back to their Creator in eucharistic celebration.

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Journalism and peace work have been major ingredients in author Jim Forest’s life. He is secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship and editor of it journal and website, In Communion. He is a recipient of the Peacemaker Award from Notre Dame University’s Institute for International Peace Studies. He is a prolific writer of inspirational, historical, and biographical books. Jim makes his home in Alkmaar, Holland, near Amsterdam. St George and the Dragon is his second children’s book for St Vladimir’s Seminary Press (the first is Silent as a Stone).

Born in St Petersburg, Russia, Vladislav Andrejev received a formal education in fine art book illustration. His search for deeper meaning in art and life lead him to solitary travels in parts of the Russian wilderness, and to independent study of icon and fresco painting with a monk icon-writer. Mr Andrejev is an accomplished iconographer, teacher of iconography, and illustrator of award-winning books manifesting his unique style as a continuation of the ancient Byzantine-Russian tradition. He works in his private studio at his residence in upstate New York.

A retelling of the legend of Saint George for modern readers, illustrated in traditonal iconographic style. True stories become streamlined into legends and legends become compressed into myths. The Saint George of myth was a knight in armor who fought a dragon to save a princess— but the real George never saw a dragon nor did he rescue a princess. We are not even sure he had a horse or possessed a sword. A Christian convert born in the third century, George was one among many martyrs of the early Church. What made George a saint was the completely fearless manner in which he proclaimed his faith during a period of fierce persecution. In early icons, George was shown dressed as a soldier and holding the cross of martyrdom, but over time the legend of the dragon emerged. The story tells of a dragon so feared by the local people that they sacrificed their children to appease it. When it was the turn of the king's daughter, Elizabeth, to be sacrificed, Saint George appeared riding a white horse. He not only saved the princess and vanquished the dragon, but converted and baptised the whole town. From the point of view of history, the dragon story is apocryphal—yet what better way to symbolize the evil George confronted in this life than to portray it in the form of a firebreathing dragon? It is the courage God gives any Christian facing martyrdom or, for that matter, much smaller challenges. This beautifully illustrated book relates the oftentold story of Saint George and the dragon, with an afterword that looks at the real meaning of the legend.

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The Woman and the Wheat is the story of the joy of a farmer as she works to grow the wheat and bake the bread that she will offer back to her Creator in eucharistic celebration.

Silent as a Stone memorializes the life of Mother Maria Skobtsova, an unconventional nun who aided Jewish people in occupied France during WWII. Maria devised an ingenious plan to save Jewish children destined for extermination camps.

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The Boy, a Kitchen, and His Cave CATHERINE K. CONTOPOULOS CHRISSANTH GREENE-GROSS, ILLUSTRATOR

A clumsy scullery boy finds solace in a place known only to him and his God in this charming story of the ninth-century saint, Euphrosynos, commonly known in Orthodox tradition as “The Cook.”

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“A faithful rendering of the legend Saint George and the dragon. Told gentle, flowing manner, the story not only the legend, but shows ho drives out fear. The explanation fo the lavishly illustrated text discuss only St George in history, but deta symbolism of icons that depict th martyr. The illustrations are icono in their execution, but brilliantly c and vivid accompaniments to the Both parents and children will fin book full of treasures worth comi to again and again.”

Saint George and the Dragon JIM FOREST VLADISLAV ANDREJEV, ILLUSTRATOR

This beautifully illustrated book, with thirteen full-page illustrations, relates the often-told story of St George and the dragon, with an afterword that looks at the real meaning of the legend.

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This book reacquaints boys and girls with the authentic Santa Claus—St Nicholas, a man who found greatness in being a true icon of Jesus Christ in word and deed.

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The book is a short guide to the Orthodox faith, written in a lively, accessible, modern language. The first section of the book is devoted to the basic doctrinal truths of the Orthodox Church: it deals with faith, God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Church, Baptism, and the resurrection of the dead. The second section, devoted to moral topics, speaks of the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament, the Beatitudes, love of God and love of neighbor, sin and repentance, questions of family ethics, the upbringing of children, and the place of women in the Church. The third section deals with prayer and worship, the temple and icons, the church calendar and church holidays, the Sacraments, and rituals. The book can be used for both pre-baptismal and post-baptismal catechesis. It will be of interest to everyone anyone who wants to systematize their knowledge about the Orthodox Church. Originally published in Russian, the book addresses the fundamentals of the Orthodox faith in a way that is understandable and approachable for all. Metropolitan Hilarion has authored numerous works on theology and church history, and is an internationally recognized composer of liturgical music.

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The name “Jesus,” given to the Infant at his birth, means “the Lord saves” in Hebrew. The Greek word “Christ” is used for Jesus many times in the New Testamen t and means “the Anointed One.” 11 It points to the priestly, prophetic and royal dignity of Jesus,25 to His special mission in relation to the people of Israel and to the whole human race. Supernatural signs accompanied the birth of Jesus Christ: the angels announc ed his birth to the shepherds (Lk 2.8–18) , and the Magi from the east, led by a mysterious star, came in order to worship him (Mt 2.1–12). On the eighth day after his birth, the infant Jesus was circumcised according to the Jewish law (Lk 2.21) , and on the fortieth day Mary and Joseph brought him to the Temple in Jerusale m to dedicate him to the Lord. There they were greeted by righteous elder the Symeon, who foretold that Jesus would become a “light to bring the glory of the people revelation to the gentiles” and of Israel

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century Jewish Roman historian Flavius to this prophet, who Josephus) testify in church tradition is called John the Baptist or John the Forerunner. John said to the people that came to him: with water unto “I baptize you repentance, but he who is coming me is more powerful after than I, whose sandals to carry. He will I am not worthy baptize you with the Holy Spirit fire.” When Jesus and came to the Jordan to receive baptism from John, the latter tried “I need to be baptized at first to forbid him and said: by you, and are me?” But Jesus answered him: “Permit you coming to for thus it is fitting it to be so now; for us to fulfill all righteousness.”

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In the fifteenth year of the rule of the Roman emperor Tiberius 26 a prophet appeared on the banks of the river Jordan. He not only called upon people to repent their sins, but he of also performed a ritual of baptism immersing them by in the waters of the Jordan. This act a sign of purificati was on from as well as other historical their sins. All four evangelists, sources (for example, the first-

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In ancient Israel, priests (Ex 28.41), (1 Kg/1 Sam 10.1, prophets (3 Kg/1 16.13, etc.) were Kg 19.16) and kings ordained through points to Jesus’ role as priest, prophet, anointing, so the title and king. Tiberius ruled the Roman Empire from 15th year of his August 19, 14 to reign falls on the March 16, 37. The 29th-30th years.

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The miracles are the aspect of the ministry of Jesus Christ that drew the greatest attention from those around him during his life. Already at the very beginning of his preaching in Galilee “his fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them. Great multitudes followed Him—from Galilee, and from Decapolis, 46 Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan” (Mt 4.24–25). In time his fame only grew, while some of the people whom he healed, including women, became a part of his group of disciples (Lk 8.2–3). The stories of the miracles performed by Jesus upon entering his public ministry comprise an important part of the Gospel narratives. In total, we find in the Gospels more than thirty complete stories of the miracles of Jesus (not including the short mentions of various supernatural events that accompanied his life and ministry). Among

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them there are numerous healings, the expulsion of demons from the possessed, raising three people from the dead, several events testifying to Jesus’ power over nature (walking on water, the calming of a storm, and cursing of the fig tree), and a number of other supernatural events (the transformation of water into wine, the feeding of the five thousand and the seven thousand with a small number of loaves, two miraculous catches of fish). As regards the total number of the miracles performed by Jesus, they cannot be subject to calculation: there may be hundreds if not thousands of healings. This is witnessed by the many places in the Gospels where it is evident that the miracles he performed and the expulsion 27 of demons bore a mass character .

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21.14; Mk See: Mt 4.23–24; 8.16–17; 9.35; 12.15; 14.35–36; 15.30–31; 19.2; 6.17–19; 1.32–34, 39; 3.10–11; 6.54–56; Lk 4.40–41; 6.54–56; Lk 4.40–41; 7.21; Jn 20.30.

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Then John allowed Jesus to be baptized. And when Jesus emerged from the waters, “the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, ‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased’” (Mt 3.11–17; Mk 1.9–11; Lk 3.21–22). By this time Jesus was about thirty years old (Lk 3.23). After his baptism, he withdrew into the wilderness where he spent forty days without food and water. There he was tempted by the devil, but he vanquished all temptations and emerged victorious from this battle with the devil (Mt 4.1–11; Mk 1.12–13; Lk 4.1–13). Jesus began his preaching with the very same words that John the Baptist addressed to the people: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Mt 3.2; 4.17). Very soon a group of disciples and followers gathered around Jesus, from whom he chose twelve to be apostles (Mk 3.14, Lk 6.13). Crowds of people followed him, attracted by his

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The spirit of the age contradicts all that Christ teaches, and many reject or leave the Church to satisfy their longing for the supernatural in esoteric traditions governed by the spirits of the underworld. The occult is now an unashamed feature of modern life, yet discussion of its danger often results in snorts of derision. Like many wounded by life and dissatisfied with the emptiness of modern existence, Magdalena Waters hungered for healing and thirsted for genuine spiritual experience. This propelled her into an intense spiritual search. Abandoning Christianity, she plunged into the depths of ancient, elemental witchcraft. In this raw and unflinching account, which reveals the pain that drives a person to seek release through magic and the suffering that results from worship of demons, Magdalena traces what it means to be healed and transformed by the love of Christ and the blessings available to those who accept His call to be reborn in the kingdom of God. Magdalena Waters is an Orthodox writer and artist who grapples with hard truths and important realities related to the unseen realm, demonic warfare, and the occult; abortion, gender dynamics, and feminism; and modernity, ancient praxis, and progressive ideology.

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