Lenten Season 2023 Catalog

UPCOMING RELEASES

Journey to Simplicity

The Life and Wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga

DANIEL B. HINSHAW, M.D.

The past century witnessed the greatest persecution of Christians in all of history. But the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church, and great heroes of the faith emerged. One such hero is Fr Roman Braga. He suffered the unimaginable cruelty of Romanian Communist prisons, yet through this suffering he was purified and discovered the kingdom of heaven within himself (Lk 17.21). Dr Daniel Hinshaw traces the story of his life from his early days in the Burning Bush movement, through his imprisonment and suffering, to his later life and his final years here in the United States.

Daniel Hinshaw is an Orthodox Christian layman and practicing physician. He teaches palliative care as a professor emeritus of surgery and is a consultant in palliative medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, at Transilvania University in Romania, and at Balamand University in Lebanon. He is also a sessional professor of palliative care at St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York.

Other Books by This Author:

Touch and the Healing of the World

Paperback • 6x9 • 144 pp. $24 • 978-0-88141-599-5

Suffering and the Nature of Healing

Paperback • 6x9 • 262 pp. $28 • 978-0-88141-473-8

From Glory to Glory Texts from St Gregory

Mystical Writings (new edition)

of Nyssa’s

ST GREGORY OF NYSSA JEAN DANIÉLOU, S.J., INTRO. HERBERT MUSURILLO, S.J., TRANS.

This volume provides an anthology of selections from St Gregory of Nyssa’s writings on the spiritual life, with an introduction by Jean Daniélou. This is an excellent companion to Daniélou’s Platonism and Mystical Theology (coming winter 2022).

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Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c A.D. 335–after 384) was bishop of Nyssa and a prominent theologian of the fourth century.

Related Books:

Platonism and Mystical Theology: The Spiritual Doctrine of St Gregory of Nyssa (coming winter 2022)

JEAN DANIÉLOU, S.J. ANTHONY P. GYTHIEL AND MICHAEL DONLEY, TRANS. Paperback • 6x9 • 444 pp. $32 • 978-0-88141-717-3

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Saint Casilda Brings the Bread

MELINDA JOHNSON KRISTINA TARTARA, ILLUSTRATOR

In this heartwarming children’s book, we see the love and service of a young princess who visited Christian prisoners a thousand years ago in Spain. Miracles can happen when we show our love for others in action.

Melinda Johnson is an Orthodox Christian, wife, and mother. She loves writing for children and has authored several books, including the Sam and Saucer series, and Saint Eleazar Fills His Cups.

COMING SPRING 2023

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Kristina Tartara is an Orthodox mom, children’s book author, and illustrator. She has illustrated several books and also created the board books What Do You See at Liturgy and What Can I Do at Divine Liturgy.

Sacraments of Healing

METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS WARE

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.

COMING SUMMER 2023

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Metropolitan Kalistos Ware (1934–2022) was a renowned writer, lecturer, and churchman. His works have introduced countless people to the life and traditions of the Orthodox Church, and he has left an indelible mark on contemporary Orthodox thought and history.

Other Books by This Author & Illustrator:

St Ia Rides a Leaf Boardbook • 5.5x7 • 21 pp. $12 • 978-0-88141-668-8

St Ia Rides a Leaf Boardbook

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Other Books by This Author:

The Orthodox Way: Classics Series Edition, Vol. 2 Paperback • 6x9 • 208 pp. $20 • 978-0-88141-629-9

The Inner Kingdom

Paperback

• 6x9 • 230 pp. $24 • 978-0-881-41209-3

The Choice of Orthodoxy

The Church-One, Holy Catholic, and

Apostolic

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.

Daniel Daly, is that the right photo? Can’t find a usabe biography. Help, Mada :)

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Mediation and the Immediate God Scriptures, the Church, and Knowing God

METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS WARE

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 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.

Edith Mary Humphrey is the William F. Orr Professor Emerita of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She is the author of articles on topics as diverse as the rhetorical analysis of vision reports, C. S. Lewis, theological anthropology, and justification in St John Chrysostom and Calvin.

Related Books: The Orthodox Faith Four Volume, Set THOMAS HOPKO

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Other Books by This Author:

Further Up and Further In: Orthodox Conversations with C. S. Lewis on the Bible and

Theology

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When You Fast Recipes for Lenten Seasons

CATHERINE MANDELL

This balanced and helpful book was born out of the author’s nearly decade-long quest to attain a rule of fasting for her family in accordance with the traditional Orthodox Christian discipline. Her goal was not only abstention from meat during Lenten seasons, but also abstention from dairy products, and from oils on the strictest of fast days. The resultant 200 recipes provide a variety of easy, nourishing, and appealing meals. Sprinkled among the delicious recipes are sayings from the Mothers and Fathers of the early Church regarding how the body and soul are affected by eating habits-pithy illuminations to accompany the appetizing recipes.

Catherine Mandell works as a banking officer/ commercial lending portfolio manager in the banking industry. She and her husband reside in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, and have three grown children.

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How to stock a Lenten pantry

Recipes for breads, spreads, sandwiches, soups, salads, main dishes, fish, shellfish, desserts

Dairy-free recipes

Recipes with and without oil Dozens of variations for the recipes

Homespun introductions to each section

Helpful notes from the author

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When You Feast: Recepies for Celebrations

NATALE ADRIANO FASCIANI

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Brief but forceful sayings from Holy Scripture and the saints

Guidelines for fasting in accordance with the Orthodox Christian tradition

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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT

JOURNEY

TO

SIMPLICITY

: THE LIFE AND WISDOM OF ARCHIMANDRITE

ROMAN BRAGA

DANIEL B. HINSHAW, M.D.

This book is an account of the life and wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga, placed within the context of the tumultuous times in which he lived. Chronologically, his life was evenly split between the first half in Romania, where he came of age during the interwar years, the upheavals of ultranationalist movements, and the later terrors of the communist regime; and the second half in the West, with four years in Brazil and the rest in the United States, where he translated Romanian Orthodox church music to English, served as a parish priest and then spiritual father to the sisterhood of Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Monastery in Ellwood City, PA, and finally spent the last years of his life at Holy Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery in Rives Junction, MI.

From his childhood in a pious family in Bessarabia (modern Moldova), Fr Roman developed an abiding respect and love for the “simple” monks, which was always in tension with his intellectual brilliance and inquisitiveness as a student and theological scholar. Eventually, the simple monks won out, thus the book’s title: Journey to Simplicity. He came to embody the very epitome of simplicity, in the best sense of the word— the simplicity of a fully integrated, whole person who was a living example of how one should pursue “the one thing needful.”

Fr Roman corresponded frequently with fellow clergy and spiritual children. He did not shy away from sharing his views on difficult topics,

such as the call for unity within the American Orthodox churches, but always did so with a nuanced and gentle approach. He refused to judge those within the church hierarchy who operated under duress during the communist regime in Romania. He felt great compassion for them and was grateful that many churches could remain open, paving the way for a strong rebirth of Orthodox Christian life after the revolution of 1989.

Arrested and imprisoned multiple times during his life in communist Romania, Fr Roman’s was a life informed by suffering on a scale we can barely comprehend. And yet, his response to that suffering and the many tortures and injustices he experienced was to love, especially to love his tormentors, even remembering them years later when saying the prayers of the Proskomedia.

Early in our Orthodox journey, my wife and I began to visit Holy Dormition Monastery regularly and were captivated by Fr Roman’s homilies, especially when he would offer a “word” after the Divine Liturgy. We were blessed for a time to have him as our confessor and were drawn closer to him as his health declined. I was also blessed to help with his palliative care during his final illness, and I was with him when he died.

Having spent my career working with dying patients, I can say that those who lived through extreme trauma, such as combat or torture, often go through a difficult death. Fr Roman’s dying process was one of the most beautiful deaths I’ve ever witnessed, a very quiet, peaceful death. It was just extraordinary. He is my model of what healing and dying as a Christian could be.

DANIEL HINSHAW is an Orthodox Christian layman and physician. He is Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Michigan and a Consultant in Palliative Medicine at the University of Michigan Geriatrics Center. He has also taught Palliative Care at Transilvania University in Brașov, Romania, and at St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary.

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AUDIOBOOKS AVAILABLE NOW

Our Father

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

DN ALEXANDER HATCHER, NARRATOR

Great Lent

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.”

Audiobook • 5h 27m

How to Be a Sinner

PETER BOUTENEFF, AUTHOR & NARRATOR

We call ourselves “sinners” in much of our church life. Yet the sinner identity—when done right—brings peace of mind, a clear conscience, and love for others. Written by an internationally recognized professor of Orthodox theology, this book will speak to you wherever you find yourself.

Audiobook • 4h 44m

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. Audiobook • 1h 17m

Father Arseny Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father (new edition)

VERA BOUTENEFF, NARRATOR

PETER BOUTENEFF, NARRATOR

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.

Audiobook • 12h 50m

PPS 44B

On the Incarnation (English

only)

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

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.

Audiobook • 4h 19m

PPS 62

On the Orthodox Faith (Greek & English)

ST JOHN OF DAMASCUS NORMAN RUSSELL, TRANS. FR IGNATIUS GREEN, 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. This new translation is presented as a diglot edition, reproducing the Greek text on the facing page, and it includes a helpful introduction discussing the origin and reception of the text.

Audiobook • 8h 52m

For the Life of the World Classics Series Edition, Vol. 1

AUDIOBOOKS

Money & Salvation: An Invitation to the Good Way

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.

Audiobook • 6h 38m

The Orthodox Way Classics Series Edition, Vol. 2

KALLISTOS WARE JONAH MARTIN, NARRATOR

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.

Audiobook • 6h 27m

COMING SOON

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.

Audiobook

A Voice for Our Time

Radio Liberty Talks, Vol. 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

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 Audiobook

PPS 54

On the Apostolic Tradition

HIPPOLYTUS

ALISTAIR STEWART, TRANS.

DN ALEXANDER HATCHER, NARRATOR

Audiobook

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 Fr 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.

Audiobook

RECENT RELEASES

Moved by Compassion • Exploring the Core of Orthodox Christian Spiritual Life

JOHN JONES

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.

Paperback • 6×9 • 308 pp. $27 • 978-0-88141-711-1

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On Death and Eternal Life (Greek & English)

ST GREGORY OF NYSSA BRIAN DALEY, TRANS.

The seven works in this volume (some translated for the first time) 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 (On the Dead, On Infants Taken Away before Their Time, and On the “Final Subjection” of Christ) might be termed thematic essays; the fourth is a sermon celebrating Christ’s resurrection

(On the Holy Pascha); and the remaining three are funeral homilies given for prominent people in Constantinople (Meletius, Pulcheria, and Flaccilla). This volume includes the critical Greek text..

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 328 pp. $28 • 978-0-88141-709-8

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Headings on Spiritual Knowledge

The Second Part, Chapters 1–3 ST ISAAC OF NINEVEH SEBASTIAN BROCK, TRANS.

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.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 252 pp. $21 • 978-0-88141-702-9

Money & Salvation • An Invitation to the Good Way

ANDREW GELERIS

“... 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

Paperback • 5×7 • 428 pp. $22 • 978-0-88141-690-9

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On Wealth and Poverty (new edition)

ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM CATHARINE P. ROTH, TRANS.

The sermons of St John Chrysostom are among the richest classical commentaries on the Christian life. As St John delivers this series of sermons on Lazarus and the rich man, he addresses the questions of wealth and poverty in the lives of the people of his day. And yet, as the modern reader is confronted with his words, it becomes apparent that he, too, is being addressed.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 130 pp. $21 • 978-0-88141-673-2

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On the Orthodox Faith (Greek & English)

ST JOHN OF DAMASCUS NORMAN RUSSELL, TRANS.

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. This

new translation is presented as a diglot edition, reproducing the Greek text on the facing page, and it includes a helpful introduction discussing the origin and reception of the text.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 567 pp. $32 • 978-0-88141-694-7

Saint Eleazar Fills His Cups

MELINDA JOHNSON KRISTINA TARTARA, ILLUSTRATOR

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.

Boardbook • 5.5×7 • 22 pp. $12 • 978-0-88141-704-3

A Voice for Our Time • Radio Liberty Talks, Vol. 1

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

ALEXIS VINOGRADOV & NATHAN WILLIAMS, TRANS.

In his broadcasts on Radio Liberty, Fr Alexander Schmemann spoke to men and women behind the iron curtain who had endured the deprivation, persecution, and state-enforced propaganda of the Stalin years. But his words do not belong to that era alone. They are addressed just as urgently to our own time. He exposes the roots of the lies and misperceptions that abound in our age and brings all to a proper perspective in light of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Hardcover • 6×9 • 354 pp. $32 • 978-0-88141-679-4

Moved by Compassion Moved by Compassion

John D. Jones

A Voice for Our Time •

Radio Liberty Talks, Vol. 2

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

ALEXIS VINOGRADOV & NATHAN WILLIAMS, TRANS.

“Father Alexander’s talks on Radio Liberty were a breath of fresh air for all of us who were living in a country where every effort was made to erase God from people’s memory. 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 touched upon a very wide range of topics from Gospel passages and liturgical worship to poetry by Pasternak and Akhmatova, or prose by Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn. He spoke from heart to heart, and thousands were touched by this unique, very personal and unrepeatable voice.”

—Met. Hilarion Alfeyev

Hardcover • 6.25×9.25 • 387 pp. $32 • 978-0-88141-700-5

A Voice for Our Time Radio Liberty Talks, Set

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

ALEXIS VINOGRADOV & NATHAN WILLIAMS, TRANS.

Hardcover • 6.25×9.25 • 2 books $51.20 (20% off) • TC-AVFRLT-SET

Building an Orthodox Marriage A Workbook Companion

GREGORY J. ABDALAH

This Workbook Companion serves as a helpful supplement to Building an Orthodox Marriage. It can be used by couples who are preparing for marriage, and by pastors and other church leaders who provide premarital counseling. The Workbook enables pastors and couples to get more out of Building an Orthodox Marriage, and helps them see more clearly how to apply the theological principles and teachings of the Church in the particular circumstances of their own lives.

Spiral Binding • 5.5×8.5 • 52 pp. $14 • 978-0-88141-687-9

Building an Orthodox Marriage, Set

Building an Orthodox Marriage: A Practical Commentary on the Eastern Orthodox Marriage Rite & Building an Orthodox Marriage: A Workbook Companion

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The Euchologion Unveiled • An Explanation of Byzantine Liturgical Practice II

ARCHBISHOP JOB GETCHA

The Euchologion Unveiled describes and explains the sacramental services of the Orthodox Church. The Euchologion is the liturgical book that priests use to serve all the mysteries, or sacraments, of the Church. Archbishop Job “unveils” the history, meaning, and structure of these services, and the Orthodox understanding of the sacraments, through which believers receive grace and become partakers of the divine life.

Paperback • 6×9 • 269 pp. $32 • 978-0-88141-635-0

The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church • Radio Liberty Talks, Vol. 1 BRADLEY NASSIF

The leading scholar on the relationship between the Orthodox Church and Evangelical Protestantism writes about the centrality of the gospel in the Orthodox Church and the commonalities and differences that exist between Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism.

Paperback • 6×9 • 284 pp. $30 • 978-0-88141-692-3

Faith Seeking Understanding • The Theological Witness of Fr Matthew Baker

MATTHEW BAKER

Faith Seeking Understanding offers a collection of the essays, letters, interviews, and correspondence of Fr Matthew Baker, exploring the works of Fr Georges Florovsky and the writings of the Church Fathers. Paperback • 6×9 • 368 pp. $30 • 978-0-88141-688-6

Moscata Visits a Monastery CHELSEA YOUELL

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.

Hardcover • 8×10 • 32 pp. $22 • 978-0-88141-696-1

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LATEST SVTQ S

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

IONUŢ-ALEXANDRU TUDORIE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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 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 of 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); S.N. Bunta, The Lord God of Gods: Divinity and Deification in Early Judaism 2021 (M. Awabdi); S. Brock, trans., Isaac of Nineveh. Headings on Spiritual Knowledge (The Second Part, Chapters 1–3) 2022 (J. Scully); D. Costache, Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations 2021 (Ch. Knight); V. Coman, Dumitru Stăniloae’s Trinitarian Ecclesiology: Orthodoxy and the Filioque 2019 (P. Maican).

Paperback • 6×9 • TBD $60 • PB-SVTQ66 3-4

St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly Vol. 66 (2022), Nos. 1–2

IONUŢ-ALEXANDRU TUDORIE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The latest issue of the St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly (66.1–2/2022) is published at a moment when the largest portion of the worldwide Orthodox Church finds itself in a deeply scandalous and sinful state of internal war which constitutes the gravest intra-Orthodox crisis in many centuries. It is only natural, therefore, that the editorial and several essays—one of them penned by His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America—are reflecting on the ecclesio-

logical, moral, and pastoral aspects of this crisis. Scholarly articles discuss Origen’s theory of epinoiai (M. Miller), the overlooked contribution of St Maximus’ Ep. 15 to Neo-Chalcedonian Christology (Rev. Dr C. Berger), the eucharistic doctrine of Father Dumitru Stăniloae (M. Portaru), and the Orthodox reception of Odo Casel’s Mysterienlehre (J. van Rossum). We are also publishing the text of the Schmemann Lecture, delivered by the Rev. Dr Khaled Anatolios at St Vladimir’s Seminary in January 2022. The volume ends with reviews of the following books: D. Caner, Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late A); T. Vivian, M. Mikhail, A. Athanassakis, R. Kitchen, R. Greer, The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives (The American University in Cairo Press, 2022); T. Obolevich, Semion Frank, Lev Karsavin i evraziitsy [Semyon Frank, Lev Karsavin, and Eurasians] (Modest Kolerov, 2020); Z. A. Brzozowska, M. J. Leszka, and T. Wolińska, Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context: A Bibliographical History (Łódź University Press, 2020); Wadid El Macari, La balance du cœur: un substrat égyptien aux homélies macariennes (LIT Verlag, 2022); Arabic Christianity between the Ottoman Levant and Eastern Europe (ed. I. Feodorov, B. Heyberger, and S. Noble; Brill, 2021).

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SCHMEMANN COLLECTION

have a spiritual thirst, a yearning for something indefinable that calls them out of themselves.

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Celebration of Faith, Vol. 2: The Church Year

A Voice for Our Time • Radio Liberty Talks, Vol. 2

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

ALEXIS VINOGRADOV & NATHAN WILLIAMS, TRANS.

In his broadcasts on Radio Liberty, Fr Alexander Schmemann spoke to men and women behind the iron curtain who had endured the deprivation, persecution, and state-enforced propaganda of the Stalin years. But his words do not belong to that era alone. They are addressed just as urgently to our own time. He exposes the roots of the lies and misperceptions that abound in our age and brings all to a proper perspective in light of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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A Voice for Our Time • Radio Liberty Talks, Vol. 2

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

ALEXIS VINOGRADOV & NATHAN WILLIAMS, TRANS.

“Father Alexander’s talks on Radio Liberty were a breath of fresh air for all of us who were living in a country where every effort was made to erase God from people’s memory. 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 touched upon a very wide range of topics from Gospel passages and liturgical worship to poetry by Pasternak and Akhmatova, or prose by Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn. He spoke from heart to heart, and thousands were touched by this unique, very personal and unrepeatable voice.”

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A Voice for Our Time Radio Liberty Talks, Set

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

ALEXIS VINOGRADOV & NATHAN

WILLIAMS, TRANS.

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

Orthodox Christianity has from its earliest days expressed its faith, its understanding of the world and its approach to life through a network of feasts that embrace the entire year. Fr Schmemann examines first the phenomenon of celebration and then its expression in the Orthodox Christian church year, focusing especially on the Christmas and Easter cycles.

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Celebration of Faith, Vol. 3: The Virgin Mary

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

Church, World, Mission

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

The questions raised in this collection of essays pertain to a wide range of subjects: history, theology, liturgy, canonical order, the ecumenical movement, and mission.

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For the Life of the World •• (Classics Series Edition)

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

In this book, Schmemann suggests an approach to the world and life within it which 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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Celebration of Faith, Vol. 1: I Believe...

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

A remarkable collection of Fr Alexander Schmemann’s sermons delivered to listeners in the Soviet Union. These sermons speak to “seekers,” to those who

This volume is on a topic that was particularly close to Fr Alexander Schmemann’s heart: the Virgin Mary. The first part of this volume consists of a series of sermons originally delivered in Russian over Radio Liberty, addressed to a largely unchurched audience. In the second part Fr Schmemann addresses an academic audience in a series of lectures.

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PROTOPRESBYTER ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN (1921-1983) WAS ST VLADIMIR’S BELOVED DEAN AND PROFESSOR. AS WE CELEBRATE HIS INCREDIBLE LEGACY, WE INVITE YOU TO LOOK THROUGH HIS WRITINGS PUBLISHED BY SVS PRESS OVER THE YEARS.

Great Lent ••

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

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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Introduction to Liturgical Theology

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

This book is a masterful historical and critical introduction to the study of modern Orthodox liturgics and theology. This work was basic to much of Schmemann’s academic research and creativity. In it, he defines liturgical theology, noting that the dynamic realism of the Eucharistic liturgy often has been obscured in popular liturgical piety.

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Liturgy and Tradition

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

This rich and insightful collection of essays by the preeminent Orthodox liturgical theologian is intended as a companion volume to his Introduction to Liturgical Theology. Here can be traced the development of his thought, particularly his increasingly precise articulation of the nature and method of liturgical theology.

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O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? • ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

In this brief but stirring collection, Fr Alexander Schmemann does not have the luxury for platitudes and pleasantries on the most difficult of life’s ultimate questions. Taking us to the heart of Christian revelation and anthropology, he leads us unequivocally and directly, as only he can, to disclose why the apostle Paul calls death the “last enemy” (1 Cor 15.26) and Christ’s decisive answer to this enemy.

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Of Water and the Spirit

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

In this study of the Orthodox understanding of Christian initiation, the rites of baptism and chrismation, Fr Schmemann invites us to “rediscover” baptism. He penetrates the Church’s rubrics and rituals often dismissed as out-of-date or merely quaint to reveal their inner content: a message of man’s entrance into new life, into the Church and into the Kingdom. The result is a powerful statement of the meaning baptism should hold in our lives.

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On Christian Leadership •

The Letters of Alexander Schmemann and Georges Florovsky (1947-1955)

PAUL GAVRILYUK, TRANS. Delve into the fascinating and poignant dialogue between two giants of twentieth-century Orthodox theology. These letters, available in English for the first time, provide a unique window into their theological visions and leadership styles.

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Our Father ••

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

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. Father Schmemann awakens in us a fresh understanding of these familiar petitions.

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Schmemann Set Journals and Letters

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

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Now, forgiveness stands at the very center of Christian faith and of Christian life because Christianity itself is, above all, the religion of forgiveness. God forgives us, and his forgiveness is in Christ, his Son, whom he sends to us, so that by sharing in his humanity we may share in his love and be truly reconciled with God. Indeed, Christianity has no other content but love. And it is primarily the renewal

of that love, a return to it, a growth in it, that we seek in Great Lent, in fasting and prayer, in the entire spirit and the entire effort of that season. Thus, truly forgiveness is both the beginning of and the proper condition for the Lenten season.

-Great Lent, Alexander Schmemann

The Eucharist

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

The Eucharist is the crowning achievement of the well-known liturgical scholar, Alexander Schmemann. It reflects his entire life experience and thoughts on the Divine Liturgy, the Church’s central act of self-realization.

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The Historical Road of Eastern Orthodoxy

ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

A stimulating interpretation of the history of Eastern Christianity, this book serves as a general introduction to the Orthodox Church and has been widely read by Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike. As Schmemann himself said, “This book is not a scholarly investigation into the history of the Orthodox Church nor a mere manual. It is a reflection on the long historical pilgrimage of Orthodoxy, an attempt to discern in our past that which is essential and permanent and that which is secondary, mere past.”

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The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann

JULIANA SCHMEMANN, TRANS.

These journals offer insight into the quiet, intimate side of his life. They witness the magnitude of his heart, his absolute humanity. Translated and edited by his wife, the abridged journals reveal his recollections and experiences and record his formative creative thought on all manner of subjects. Father Schmemann writes, “The meaning of this journal is not so much a desire to record events, but a kind of visit into myself.”

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The Liturgy of Death ALEXANDER

SCHMEMANN ALEXIS

VINOGRADOV, EDITOR

In these previously unpublished talks, Fr Alexander Schmemann critiques contemporary culture’s distorted understanding of death. He then examines the Church’s rites for burial and her prayers for the dead. Though they are often misunderstood, at the heart of the services Fr Alexander finds the paschal proclamation: “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.”

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In order to “restore in himself all people who came from Adam, all nations and mankind along with Adam himself,” Christ systematically goes through all the main stages of human life so that the effects of the fall of Adam might be corrected in each of them. By his becoming

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Christ the Conqueror of Hell

MET. HILARION ALFEYEV

This in-depth study on the realm of death presents a message of hope held by the first generation of Christians and the early church. Using Scripture, patristic tradition, early Christian poetry, and liturgical texts, Metropolitan Hilarion explores the mysterious and enigmatic event of Christ’s descent into Hades and its consequences for the human race.

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Good and Faithful Servant • Stewardship in the Orthodox Church

ANTHONY SCOTT, ED.

This pioneering volume endeavors to develop an Orthodox Christian model of stewardship by drawing on scriptural, patristic, historical, dogmatic, and liturgical foundations. Renowned contributing authors explore the links between wealth and poverty—from methods of handling money in the pre-Nicene Church to twentieth-century American patterns of fundraising.

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Father Arseny

•• Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father (new edition)

VERA BOUTENEFF, TRANS.

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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Holy Week

A Series of Meditations

The meditations in this book bring us to the very heart of Holy Week, to an encounter with Christ, and with our own true selves. Featuring fourteen meditations written by past and present professors at St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, and lavishly illustrated with icons, manuscript illuminations, and paintings, the beauty of these pages will redirect the reader’s inward eyes to the author of all beauty, who endured the darkness of Holy Week to bring us into the light of Pascha.

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the “first-born from the dead,” Christ renews people for the divine life,“having himself become the first of the living, just as Adam became the first of the dying.”

-Christ the Conqueror of Hell, Met. Hilarion Alfeyev

I Love Therefore I Am • NICHOLAS V.

SAKHAROV

This critical exposition of the theology of Archimandrite Sophrony Sakharov (18961993)—an outstanding Christian ascetic, monk, and mystic of the twentieth century—conveys the message that Christianity is not just an academic discipline but very reality, life itself. Strange to abstract scholasticism, his words breathe the inspiration of the living tradition, where Christ is the Divine Absolute, “the same yesterday, today and forever” (Heb 13.8).

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Monk of Mount Athos

ARCHIMANDRITE SOPHRONY

This compelling account of Silouan’s life, written by his closest disciple St Sophrony, reveals not only Silouan’s personality and teaching, but also the spiritual struggles which truly made him a staretz (i.e., a monk whose God-given wisdom and insight enable him to serve as a spiritual guide for others.) Staretz Silouan’s own writings are gathered in a companion volume, Wisdom from Mount Athos, also available from SVS Press.

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Orthodox Lent, Holy Week and Easter

HUGH WYBREW

As the death and resurrection of Jesus are central for the Christian faith, so Lent, Holy Week, and Easter are central in the Christian calendar. This book describes the observance of this season in the Orthodox Christian tradition by presenting selected liturgical texts from the services of its most significant days. Each day’s material is set in its liturgical context and accompanied by a brief theological and spiritual commentary.

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Pearl of Great Price

SERGEI HACKEL

This is the moving story of Mother Maria Skobtsova, a nun of the Orthodox Church, who was born into a Russian aristocratic home but who died a martyr’s death in one of Hitler’s concentration camps. In the intervening years, the vicissitudes of life led her through two marriages, childbirth and childrearing, and exile from her homeland, until she became an unconventional nun, devoted to the service of the destitute and the despairing in Nazi-occupied France.

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Scripture in Tradition

JOHN BRECK

This book offers a fresh look at the way Eastern patristic writers used Scripture in elaborating what would become the body of Orthodox doctrine. It begins with a discussion of the aims and methods of biblical interpretation as they were developed among the Greek Fathers. The second section introduces the reader to the ancient literary form known as chiasmus and shows how important a proper “chiastic” reading of the biblical text can be for revealing its “literal” meaning. Paperback • 6×9 • 238 pp. $23 • 978-0-881-41226-0

Song of Songs • Textual Commentary and Theological Reflections

LAWRENCE R. FARLEY

Father Lawrence brings his biblical interpretation skills to bear on the Song of Songs, one of the shortest but richest— and most difficult—books of the Bible. This commentary examines the text on two main levels: both as a beautiful image of the love and the bond shared between man and woman in marriage, and as an icon of the “great mystery” toward which human marriage points: Christ and the Church (Eph 5.32).

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The Song of Tears • An Essay on Repentance Based on the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete OLIVIER CLÉMENT

Every Lent the Orthodox Church prays the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete. In this short but penetrating meditation, Olivier Clément draws out several of the canon’s important themes, allowing readers to enter more deeply into the mystery of repentance.

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The Cross Stands While the World Turns Homilies for the Cycles of the Year JOHN BEHR

The homilies collected here were delivered, and worked over, at the Three Hierarchs Chapel of St Vladimir’s Seminary. These homilies follow the three main liturgical cycles of the year: the Paschal cycle, the Nativity–Theophany cycle, and the Theotokos cycle. These cycles not only map out our year, but also our lives as we learn to grow in conformity to Christ.

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The lenten spring is welcomed by Christians in the Church not as the time for self-inflicted agony or self-improving therapy. It is greeted as the sanctified season consecrated to the correction, purification, and enlightenment of the total person through the fulfillment of the commandments of the crucified God. It is received as the time for battling with evil spirits and blossoming with the fruit of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control (Gal. 5:22). It is accepted as “the great and saving forty days” set apart for complete and total dedication to the things of God. It is the “tithe of the year” which tells us that all times and seasons belong to the Lord who has created and redeemed the world.

The Lenten Spring THOMAS HOPKO

Father Hopko presents to the modern reader the relevance of the Church’s twothousand-year-old tradition of preparing to greet our Lord’s Resurrection. In his work he also makes extensive use of all facets of the Church tradition: inspiring scriptural and liturgical passages from the Lenten services, the spiritual wisdom of the ancient saints and fathers, as well as the teachings of modern guides to the Christian life.

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The Life of Repentance and Purity

POPE SHENOUDA III BISHOP SURIEL, TRANS.

Pope Shenouda III draws on Scripture, the Church Fathers, his own experience of desert monasticism, and his experience as a shepherd to millions to provide a practical understanding of Christian life.

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The Mystery of Christ • Life in Death

JOHN BEHR

Beginning with the Passion narratives, Fr Behr examines how we search the Scriptures to encounter Christ and thereby realize that we were created for this encounter, thus opening a profound perspective on creation, the fall, sin, and salvation history. He further explains how Christ is born in those who are born again in the Church, their “Virgin Mother,” so that they become truly human, after the stature of Christ, and continue the incarnation of the Word by glorifying God in their bodies.

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The Place of the Heart • ELISABETH BEHR-SIGEL

In this introductory study, the author describes the basic essential elements of Orthodox spirituality, “six great currents which meet, mix together and perpetuate themselves in the vast river which is the spiritual tradition of the Church”: the spiritual element, the Psalms and the Gospels; the primitive Christian element; the Hellenistic intellectual element; the primitive monastic element; the liturgical element; and the contemplative element.

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The Resurrection and the Icon MICHEL QUENOT

In a fascinating evaluation of the interdependence of Orthodox iconography and liturgical worship, Quenot leads the reader on a pilgrimage through the major feasts of the Church’s annual cycle by way of their iconographic representations. In every instance the image in question is treated not as a distinct work of art but rather as an integral element in an edifice that has as its unshakable foundation the Resurrection of Christ. The book includes 68 full-color iconographic reproductions and 26 blackand-white prints.

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The Year of Grace of the Lord

A MONK OF THE EASTERN CHURCH

On the basis of worship of the Orthodox Church, The Year of Grace of the Lord takes the reader through the Sundays and feast days from the beginning of the year in September to the time of its completion after Pentecost. It is a guide to the scriptural readings and prayers of the calendar year and reveals the spiritual growth in Christ that is opened to us in them. In the author’s words, the liturgical year is “an abridgement of the history of salvation.”

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-The Lenten Spring, Thomas Hopko

PRAYER

Courage to Pray

MET. ANTHONY BLOOM & GEORGES LEFEBVRE

The discovery of prayer, of man’s relationship with God and the world, of faith and love, is what gives human beings hope and courage to pray. This little book points to that discovery as a guide for those who wish to end their isolation and enter into communion with the Infinite.

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Orthodox Prayer Life • The Interior Way

MATTHEW THE POOR

Desiring to share the lessons he learned, and compelled by the Holy Spirit to do so, Fr Matta wrote this volume so that he might impart to his readers “a whole course” on the life of prayer. Father Matta discloses: “Whenever physical hunger turned cruel against me, I found my gratification in prayer. Whenever the biting cold of winter was unkind to me, I found my warmth in prayer. Whenever people were harsh to me (and their harshness was severe indeed) I found my comfort in prayer. In short, prayer became my food and my drink, my outfit and my armor, whether by night or by day.”

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Prayer Encounter with the Living God

MET. HILARION ALFEYEV

In this deceptively simple set of talks, Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev explains with grace and clarity the Orthodox understanding of prayer. Beginning with conception of prayer as creating a space of encounter with God, we are guided through the Orthodox ethos of prayer and its irreplaceable role in our Christian lives.

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Praying with the Orthodox Tradition

STEFANO PARENTI, COMPILED PAULA CLIFFORD, TRANS.

This collection of prayers for different hours of the day makes accessible some of the riches of Orthodox spirituality and resounds with thanksgiving for the greatness of God. The foreword explains how the prayers were first used, and how much all Christians can learn from this living tradition. “I hope that the prayers in this book, designed for the different hours of the day, will help us ... to make our prayer not just an intermittent activity, but a dimension present continually in all that we undertake ...” — Met. Kallistos Ware.

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The Jesus Prayer

A MONK OF THE EASTERN CHURCH

“To pronounce the name of Jesus in a holy way is an all-sufficient and surpassing aim for any human life ... We are to call to mind Jesus Christ until the name of the Lord penetrates our heart, descends to its very depths ... The Name of Jesus, once it has become the center of our life, brings everything together.” So writes the “Monk of the Eastern Church” in the course of the present work on the “prayer of the heart,” which simply invokes the name of Jesus. To those who wonder how such claims can be advanced on behalf of the Jesus Prayer, and how it is that this particular way of praying continues to appeal so powerfully to contemporary Christians, Eastern and Western, Orthodox and non-Orthodox, this short book provides an answer.

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The Watchful Mind

Teachings on the Prayer of the Heart

A MONK OF MOUNT ATHOS

Written by an anonymous priest-monk living in asceticism on the Holy Mountain, this book is the fruit of a life of deep prayer. The unknown writer was a hesychast—a practitioner of stillness and the Jesus Prayer—and in these pages he shares with readers his hidden life, a life filled with spiritual struggles, ecstatic experiences, and mystical revelations.

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Three Prayers

The Lord’s Prayer, O Heavenly King, Prayer of St Ephrem

OLIVIER CLÉMENT

In this important work, Oliver Clément, an Orthodox writer and theologian, comments on three traditional prayers. The first, which is known to us all, is the “Our Father.” The author’s intention is to discern, within the depths of the text itself, a Trinitarian revelation, the ways of communion--the “prayer of fire” of which St John Cassian spoke. There follow two other prayers that are familiar in the Eastern tradition: first the prayer of the Holy Spirit (“O Heavenly King”) which, in the Byzantine rite, precedes any liturgical action, and on a more personal level, any work of reflection or witness. It celebrates the tremendous Breath of God which conveys to us the resurrected life. Finally, the “Prayer of St Ephrem,” is characteristic of the services of Great Lent and sums up the interior struggle for trust, humility and respect for others.

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A Layman in the Desert Monastic Wisdom for a Life in the World

DANIEL G. OPPERWALL

Orthodox Christians today have no lack of resources on monastic spirituality. And yet startlingly little has been done to critically engage the monastic tradition and adapt its ancient wisdom for the Orthodox faithful living in today’s complex society. A Layman in the Desert aims to bridge this crucial gap. Working with the Conferences of St John Cassian, Opperwall constructs a kind of relationship handbook that shows us how the desert saints of old can help us build healthy, Christ-centered relationships with our spouses, children, friends, and coworkers.

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Becoming Icons of Christ • MOTHER RAPHAELA

Becoming Icons of Christ, the third in a series of collections of talks and essays by Mother Raphaela, continues the practical and plain-spoken advice on life and growth in Christ introduced and developed in the first two volumes.

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Defeating Sin • Overcoming Our Passions and Changing Forever

JOSEPH DAVID HUNEYCUTT

Defeating Sin will help readers better understand the disease that troubles the human soul. Father Joseph David Huneycutt arms readers for spiritual warfare by giving them the tools to help them repent, to turn away from the passions and toward the virtues, and to make a thorough confession.

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Despondency •

The Spiritual Teaching of Evagrius Pontus GABRIEL BUNGE

This ultimately joyful work is one of the few books available in English to deal exclusively with the problem of despondency (“acedia”) and how it can be overcome. Bunge analyzes the views of Evagrius Ponticus, the famous “philosopher of the desert,” on the dangers of acedia. Evagrius develops a sophisticated psychology which remains beneficial to us today. Indeed, this fourth-century Desert Father writes for Christians everywhere: for those in modern deserts—the city—and for those subject to silent despair.

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Dragon’s Wine and Angel’s Bread •

SPIRITUALITY The Communion of Love

on Anger and Meekness

GABRIEL BUNGE

Evagrius Ponticus (343-399 AD) spent sixteen years in the desert of Egypt, where he gained the gift of insight into the human soul. His writings influenced the theology of John Cassian, Diadochus of Photike, Maximus the Confessor, and Palladius. Evagrius’ image of the human being, profoundly biblical, allowed for a perceptive understanding of anger, its causes, consequences and cures. His major study on the topic “not ordinarily covered in works of theology” appears here in the English language for the first time and offers timeless wisdom on struggling with this passion.

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How to Be a Sinner ••

PETER BOUTENEFF

We call ourselves “sinners” in much of our church life. Yet the sinner identity— when done right—brings peace of mind, a clear conscience, and love for others. Written by an internationally recognized professor of Orthodox theology, this book will speak to you wherever you find yourself.

Paperback • 5×7 • 215 pp. $22 • 978-0-88141-623-7

MATTHEW THE POOR

This collection of writings by Matthew the Poor focuses on the living Christ of history: His Nativity, Passion, Resurrection, Ascension, and relation to the Church and the Holy Spirit in dogmatic and ascetical theology. Revealing the essence of the Christian life in simple yet profound images, Matthew’s discourses on humility, repentance, asceticism, fasting, suffering, and unity convey the Gospel message in powerful terms to modern man.

Paperback • 5.5×8.5 • 234 pp. $23 • 978-0-881-41036-5

The Compassion of the Father BORIS BOBRINSKOY

Facing the suffering and the misery of the world, where may one find the strength to offer sympathy, support, and discernment? How may one descend into the hell of the human heart without despairing? Bobrinskoy shows how by spiritual union to the life of Christ, we can be clothed with the Holy Spirit and filled with the infinite mercy of the Father.

Paperback • 5.5×8.5 • 176 pp. $18 • 978-0-881-41251-2

The Teaching of Evagrius Pontus

The Diary of a Russian Priest

ALEXANDER ELCHANINOV

Because Fr Alexander came to the priesthood through the gates of secular culture, this book will be of particular value to all struggling to live the Christian life in an increasingly secular and materialistic world. He writes on themes of universal concern, on sin and nervous disease, on marriage, on the meaning of art, on facing illness and death.

Paperback • 5.5×8.5 • 255 pp. $23 • 978-0-881-41000-6

The Spiritual Counsels of Father John of Kronstadt

ST JOHN OF KRONSTADT

The nineteenth century in Russia was a time of considerable religious revival. Many thousands of ordinary people of all classes and callings flocked to elders, or startsi, for spiritual, and also temporal, advice. These startsi, who exercised a remarkable ministry, were generally monks, but one of the most famous—Fr John of Kronstadt—was not a monk, but a married parish priest and rector of a large cathedral in the naval port of Kronstadt. The practical and down-to-earth teaching of this charismatic Russian pastor reveals him as a man of action as well as prayer. His spiritual counsel brought mental, physical, and spiritual healing to thousands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Paperback • 5.5×8.5 • 230 pp. $23 • 978-0-913-83692-7

Unseen Warfare

NICODEMUS OF THE HOLY MOUNTAIN E. KADLOUBOVSKY & G.E.H. PALMER, TRANS.

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 which is the road to perfection and the stripping away of 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.”

Paperback • 5.5×8.5 • 280 pp. $25 • 978-0-913836-52-1

Way of the Ascetics

TITO

COLLIANDER

Written for laypersons living fully in the world as much as for clergy, these compassionate and insightful reflections on self-control and inner peace are meant to lead the readers to fuller union with God.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 110 pp. $16 • 978-0-88141-049-5

Wisdom from Mount Athos ARCHIMANDRITE SOPHRONY

Staretz, or “elder”, is a title given to Orthodox monks of particular spiritual development. Staretz Silouan was a Russian peasant whose only formal education consisted of two winters at the village school. But on Mt Athos, rooted in a tradition reaching back to the very beginnings of Christian monasticism, he was taught of God and attained wisdom and spiritual maturity akin to that of the Desert Fathers. Wisdom from Mount Athos is a collection of the notes which Staretz Silouan penciled on odd scraps of paper. Included is his prose-poem “Adam’s Lament”, which echoes the haunting lyrical urgency of the Psalms. On the whole, Silouan’s writing recalls the splendor of the great liturgical texts of the Orthodox Church.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 127 pp. $17 • 978-0-913-83617-0

So long as man continues to be subject to death, he remains without power to love those who imperil his life or wellbeing. Consequently, love for enemies, the love commanded of us by Christ, the love of which Staretz Silouan speaks, is a passage from death unto life eternal, whereby the soul is assured of the ulti mate victory of Christ’s love.

-Wisdom from Mount Athos, Archimandrite Sophrony

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PPS 9 • On Wealth and Poverty (new edition)

ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

CATHARINE P. ROTH, TRANS.

The sermons of St John Chrysostom are among the richest classical commentaries on the Christian life. As St John delivers this series of sermons on Lazarus and the rich man, he addresses the questions of wealth and poverty in the lives of the people of his day. And yet, as the modern reader is confronted with his words, it becomes apparent that he, too, is being addressed.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 130 pp. $21 • 978-0-88141-673-2

PPS 10

Hymns on Paradise

ST EPHREM THE SYRIAN SEBASTIAN BROCK, 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.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 240 pp. $21 • 978-0-88141-076-1

PPS 11

On Ascetical Life

ST ISAAC OF NINEVEH MARY HANSBURY, TRANS.

Saint Isaac of Nineveh’s monastic anthropology has had a major influence on all of Byzantine spiritual literature. This translation is based on the original Syriac text edited by P. Bedjan in Mar Isaacus Ninivita, De Perfectione Religiosa.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 116 pp. $17 • 978-0-88141-077-8

PPS 12

On the Soul and the Resurrection

ST GREGORY OF NYSSA

CATHARINE P. ROTH, TRANS.

Following Plato’s literary example, St Gregory wrote a dramatic dialogue regarding the soul and the resurrection in which he plays the role of “pupil,” while his elder sister, St Macrina, assumes the role of “teacher.” The lively dialogue addresses many thorny issues, including the nature of the soul and the condition of the soul after death.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 130 pp. $18 • 978-0-88141-120-1

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Letters from the Desert A Selection of Questions and Responses

BARSANUPHIUS & JOHN JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS, TRANS.

These two monastic elders maintained strict seclusion within their cells around Gaza in the sixth century and spoke to others only through letters. The questions and answers evoke the image of the Christian tradition being passed from elder to disciple.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 213 pp. $20 • 978-0-88141-254-3

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Four Desert Fathers

Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria TIM VIVIAN, TRANS.

This volume provides insight into life in the famous Egyptian monastic communities of the fourth century, introducing their thought and practice and offering access to their world.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 202 pp. $24 • 978-0-88141-256-7

PPS 28 •

St

Macarius the Spiritbearer

Coptic Texts relating to St Macarius the Great

TIM VIVIAN, TRANS.

This important work features three seminal texts that provide insight into one of the most venerated saints of the Coptic Church and into the life of the Egyptian monastic communities of the fourth century. This is a companion volume to Four Desert Fathers, which features the lives of Macarius the Spiritbearer, Macarius of Alexandria, Pambo, and Evagrius. The two volumes together, introducing the thought and practice of these desert dwellers through their sayings, virtues, and lives, offer the best access to their world.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 216 pp. $21 • 978-0-88141-257-4

PPS 29 •

On the Lord’s Prayer

TERTULLIAN, CYPRIAN, ORIGEN ALISTAIR STEWART-SYKES, TRANS.

These are the only three existing anteNicene treatises on the Lord’s Prayer, and they became the starting point for many other commentaries.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 214 pp. $21 • 978-0-88141-261-1

PPS 36 •

Festal Orations

ST GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS

NONNA VERNA HARRISON, TRANS.

In the Eastern Churches, St Gregory’s many festal orations were hailed and eventually appointed for reading in church on specific feast days, or as commentary on the Gospel lesson for the day.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 194 pp. $19 • 978-0-88141-325-0

PPS 37 • Counsels on the Spiritual Life Volumes I & II

MARK THE MONK TIM VIVIAN & AUGUSTINE CASIDAY, TRANS.

The spiritual counsels of Mark, a fifth-century monk of Asia Minor, are equally rich in theological insight and historical interest. His writings were deeply valued by Byzantine ascetics, were circulated during the Reformation, and were read by both Lutheran and Roman theologians. His words on taking responsibility for one another out of love, his practical advice on the need for repentance, and his strident emphasis on the kind of unity evident in Christ directly relate to modern Christians and may provide a useful point of departure for ecumenical dialogue.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 339 pp. $27 • 978-0-88141-063-1

PPS 40 •

Divine Eros

Hymns of St Symeon the New Theologian DANIEL K. GRIGGS, TRANS.

The inspiring and timeless hymns of this tenth-century Greek monk challenge the reader to internalize Christian values, even to embrace the Christ event as an individual experience.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 419 pp. $32 • 978-0-88141-349-6

PPS 42 • On the Holy Spirit

ST BASIL THE GREAT STEPHEN HILDEBRAND, TRANS. 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.”

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 126 pp. $20 • 978-0-88141-876-7

PPS 45 • Treasure-House of Mysteries

Exploration of the Sacred Text through Poetry in the Syriac Tradition

SEBASTIAN BROCK, TRANS.

Why was Cain’s sacrifice rejected, but Abel’s accepted? How did Joseph react when he came home and found Mary with child? Questions such as these serve as the starting points in these lively and highly imaginative poems.

41 • On the Two Ways

PPS

Life or Death, Light or Darkness: Foundational Texts in the Tradition

ALISTAIR STEWART, TRANS.

Early Christians saw that life presents us with a choice of following either good or evil. This book contains the various presentations of these two ways across the centuries.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 159 pp. $20 • 978-0-88141-850-7

PPS 43 • Works on the Spirit

ATHANASIUS THE GREAT AND DIDYMUS THE BLIND MARK DELCOGLIANO, ANDREW RADDEGALLWITZ & LEWIS AYRES, TRANS.

This volume offers new translations of two of the most powerful patristic reflections on the work and nature of the Holy Spirit. The first great testament to the Spirit’s divinity, showing how the Spirit creates and saves inseparably with the Father and the Son, is St Athanasius’ Letters to Serapion. Only a few years later, Didymus the Blind penned his own On the Holy Spirit, which is here translated into English for the first time. For Didymus, the Spirit transforms Christians by drawing them into the divine life itself and must therefore be one with the Father and Son.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 243 pp. $24 • 978-0-88141-379-3

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 306 pp. $30 • 978-0-88141-421-9

PPS 46 • Poems on Scripture (Greek

& English)

ST GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS BRIAN DUNKLE, S.J., TRANS.

This volume translates selections from Gregory’s biblical verse, much of which appears here in English for the first time. The heart of the collection is a group of poems that distill the central teachings of the four Gospels.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 159 pp. $24 • 978-0-88141-433-2

PPS 50 •

On Fasting and Feasts

ST BASIL THE GREAT SUSAN R. HOLMAN & MARK DELCOGLIANO, TRANS.

Saint Basil addresses such issues as drunkenness, hesitations over Baptism, community benefits of fasting, thankfulness when facing loss and disaster, and the mystery of the incarnation.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 141 pp. $19 • 978-0-88141-480-6

PPS 52 • Give Me a Word

The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers

JOHN WORTLEY, TRANS.

When Christians first began living as monks in the Egyptian desert at the beginning of the fourth century, they had few books and almost no learning. As they gained experience, they concentrated that experience in the form of an oral tradition of tales and sayings (apophthegmata). Consequently, when the onslaught of barbarians drove many monks out of Egypt early in the fifth century, they found it better to preserve their oral tradition in writing. Thus emerged a codification of this monastic lore.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 323 pp. $30 • 978-0-88141-497-4

PPS 55 •

On Pascha (Greek & English)

MELITO OF SARDIS ALISTAIR STEWART, TRANS.

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.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 125 pp. $22 • 978-0-88141-554-4

PPS 56

Letters to St Olympia

ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM DAVID C. FORD, TRANS.

In these letters, St John Chrysostom guides, comforts, and instructs his spiritual daughter, St Olympia, to help her overcome her temptation to despondency and despair.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 168 pp. $20 • 978-0-88141-558-2

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.

Paperback • 5×7.25 • 157 pp. $27 • 978-0-88141-657-2

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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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Blackbird’s Nest

JENNY SCHROEDEL DOUG MONTROSS, ILLUSTRATOR

Kevin was always different. He loved animals and seemed to understand their secret language. But other children brought out the worst in him. He chased, bullied, and shoved, until one spring when he learned an unforgettable lesson from an unlikely teacher—a blackbird who built a nest in his hand.

The Blackbird’s Nest: Saint Kevin of Ireland is the unforgettable story of Kevin’s transformation into one of Ireland’s best-loved saints (AD †618), revered in many Christian traditions. Written with simplicity and humor by Jenny Schroedel, and brought to life with stunning illustrations by Doug Montross, The

Blackbird’s Nest is a rich, vibrant tale of renewal and a welcome addition to children’s literature.

Hardcover • 8.5× 11 • 32 pp. $24 • 978-0-88141-258-1

Celebrate the Earth

DORRIE PAPADEMETRIOUI

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.

Hardcover • 8.5×11 • 32 pp. $22 • 978-0-88141-204-8

The Book of Jonah NIKO CHOCHELI

The Old Testament story of Jonah and his three days in the belly of the whale remains one of the most memorable Old Testament stories. The tale, so charming and disarming in its simplicity and power, remains, by Jesus Christ’s own testimony, among the unique signs of God’s saving work in His beloved Son Jesus. SVS Press is pleased to provide this illustrated version of the prophecy of Jonah especially for children. May it serve to open our minds and hearts to the gospel of Christ for which it is inspired to prefigure and signify.

Hardcover • 8.5×11 • 32 pp. $22 • 978-0-88141-207-9

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 children’s book (for ages 6-10) about the ninth-century saint, Euphrosynos, commonly known in Orthodox tradition as “The Cook.”

Author Catherine K. Contopoulos easily links the feelings of contemporary children with the feelings of this legendary character, a self-conscious, awkward boy who leaves his loving family and the taunts of his neighbors to find a niche in the kitchen of a monastic community.

Children will feel for a confused Euphrosynos when neighbors make fun of him at the local cheese shop; laugh and then tremble when an austere monk slips upon Euphrosynos’ newly mopped floor; and find an oasis of peace as Euphrosynos prays in his solitary cave. They also will learn lessons of perseverance, humility, and dependence upon God as they are naturally drawn into the story. Contopoulos achieves these goals with language that a child will understand. Her marvelous account is illustrated by Chrissanth Greene-Gross’ soft, yet vibrant, realistic images that will engage children and warm their souls.

Hardcover • 8.5×11 • 32 pp. $22 • 978-0-88141-241-3

The Man and the Vine

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.

Hardcover • 8.5×11 • 32 pp. $22 • 978-0-88141-315-1

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.

Hardcover • 9×12 • 32 pp. $22 • 978-0-88141-206-2

The Woman and the Wheat JANE G. MEYER NED GANNON, ILLUSTRATOR

“There once was a woman who planted some wheat...” So begins this rhythmical, festive children’s book about 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. The vibrant images—reminiscent of fields in the American midwest—sparkle in light-saturated, warm jewel-tones and provide the perfect backdrop for the story of a woman in love with the earth, and her labor, and equally in love with her God.

Hardcover • 8.5×11 • 32 pp. $22 • 978-0-88141-059-4

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