Wholeness and Transfiguration Illustrated in the Lives of St Francis of Assisi and St Seraphim of Sarov

By: A. M. Allchin

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 44
Two of the great Saints of the church are examined particularly by A. M. Allchin in this brief study of their choice of religious life. The Saints are still living powers within the Church of Rome, Eastern Orthodoxy and the Anglican Communion reminding us of our common spiritual union.. This essay examines the assertion of unity closely in relation to St Francis and St Seraphim and finds that this unity is not only an ecclesiastical unity in the narrow sense, but rather an integration of each one of us within himself, and also a untiy with our fellow men and with creation.

Arthur MacDonald Allchin (1930-2010), best known as Donald Allchin, was ordained priest in 1957 and later became a Canon of Canterbury Cathedral. He first gained recognition as a writer with ‘The Silent Rebellion’, a study of the nineteenth-century recovery of the monastic life in the Anglican Church. He was Warden for many years of the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God and the Society of the Sacred Cross at Tymawr. His interests in ecumenism and in the language, religion and culture of Wales were reflected in his becoming Director of the St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality in Oxford 1987-94 and subsequently an honorary Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales in Bangor.