Saint Silouan, the Athonite

Saint Silouan, the Athonite
Author: Archimandrite Sofroniĭ
Publisher: RSM Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780881411959

Part I is a remarkable account of St Silouan's life, personality and teaching. Part II consists of St Silouan's writings, which he had laboriously penciled on odd scraps of paper, expressing an authentic personal experience of Christianity identical with that of the early Desert Fathers.

A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite

A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite
Author: Elizabeth Fitzgerald
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2020-04-06
Genre:
ISBN:

"Only a few thoughts engage the Staretz' soul, his mind, but ontologically these thoughts are most profound. They are the measure of all that exists. Whoever in the depths of his being is inspired by such thinking beholds the whole world as it were through a mysterious spiritual prism." - Archimandrite Sophrony My goal in selecting one spiritual thought per day is that you will discover the light of God's invisible spiritual reality through St. Silouan's simple yet profound teachings, like looking through a pinhole to bear the intensity of sunlight. I hope that when you find these quotes meaningful, you will desire to know St. Silouan, and Orthodox Christianity better.

Remember Thy First Love

Remember Thy First Love
Author: Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
Publisher: Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist Essex, UK
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2021-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

God targets man and visits him from morning until evening and from evening until morning. Continually and from all eternity, God waits patiently at the door of man’s heart, and when He finds a tiny opening, namely, a little humility and gratitude, He enters in, and of course, when He does, He makes a feast with man. The book of Revelation calls this first visit of God ‘our first love’. This is the beginning of our walk with God, and we must always be mindful of walking worthily…

On Prayer

On Prayer
Author: Archimandrite Sofroniĭ
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780881411942

A collection of articles on prayer and the spiritual life, together with some of the author's own prayers. A moving testimony to the relevance of Christ, who, for Archimandrite Sophrony, is "all, and in all, the beginning and the ending" of all things (cf. Col 3:11; Rev 1:8).

The Enlargement of the Heart

The Enlargement of the Heart
Author: Archimandrite Zacharias
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Spiritual life
ISBN: 9780977498321

Presentation of the nature and purpose of human existence in two important figures in contemporary Orthodoxy: St. Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938) and Elder Sophrony of Essex (1896-1993). Delivered in Wichita, Kansas at the 2001 Clergy Brotherhood Retreat of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church, each lecture is published here in full together with its Asides and corresponding Questions & Answers.

Ages of the Spiritual Life

Ages of the Spiritual Life
Author: Paul Evdokimov
Publisher: RSM Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1998
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780881411751

We are surrounded today by many spiritualities - Native American, Buddhist, Sufi, from the Kabbalah, to name a few. But how does one discern the truth in them? Paul Evdokimov's spirituality is open to God, the world and to the neighbour. It is the spirituality of the Church and is rooted in the Bible and liturgy, but entwined with everyday life, a spirituality that is truly for the life of the world.

His Life is Mine

His Life is Mine
Author: Archimandrite Sofroniĭ
Publisher: RSM Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1977
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780913836330

A discussion of prayer, especially the "Jesus Prayer." Not simply a presentation of techniques, it emphasizes theology as well as practice.