Russian Orthodox

Discover the Timeless Spiritual Wisdom of Saint John of Kronstadt This powerful new English translation (2023) brings to life the profound spiritual diaries of Saint John of Kronstadt (1829–1908), one of the most beloved Orthodox Christian saints and miracle workers of Russia. Originally published in 1893 as "My Life in Christ, or Times of Spiritual Revelation and Contemplation, Reverent Feelings, Spiritual Enhancement and Silent Existence in God," this masterpiece contains 1,820 daily reflections on prayer, faith, repentance, and living a Christ-centered life. A Translation Blessed by a ...

Prophecy, Armegeddon and the end times Prophesied by the Orthodox Fathers. Plagues, pestilences, famines, climatological disasters, wars rumors of wars. Orthodox fathers prophesied about these as well as how people will not trust politicians, lose their faith and live in fear and uncertainty. They prophesied about America, the E.U, about a n upcoming war between Greece and Turkey that will take place after the predicted Syrian war and which will finally end because of world war III (Armegeddon).Elder Paisios the Athonite, St. Cosmas of Aetolia, Elder Joseph of Vatopedi Mt Athos, St. Matrona...

Before Maria Solopova became Abbess Thaisia of Leushino, she endured illness, family opposition, and years of uncertainty to follow the monastic vocation that had taken hold of her heart. Raised in nineteenth-century Russia and educated in St. Petersburg, Maria felt drawn toward prayer and service from childhood. Her path into monastic life, however, was neither simple nor sheltered. In this candid spiritual autobiography, she recounts the loss and illness that marked her early years, her struggle to obey both her parents and her calling, the severe trials of convent life, and the ...

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 026 St Seraphim of Sarov taught that the grace of the Holy Spirit is given particularly through prayer. With an introductory biography of the saint, this book concentrates upon a record made by Nicolas Motovilov of a conversation with St Seraphim in 1831, soon after Seraphim had healed him of paralysis. It was discovered in 1902 and published in the Moscow Journal of July 1903, the month Seraphim was canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Explore the unlikely friendship between 17-year-old Nick and his elderly Greek neighbor, Petrakis, in the old man's final days. Nick, too Russian for his schoolmates and too American for his immigrant friends, searches for guidance that no one but Petrakis can offer.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 124 Using the words of the Russian Orthodox spiritual teacher, St Theophan, that in prayer we should ‘stand with the mind in the heart’, Sandy Ryrie explains how to use short phrases to still the mind and enable us to rest with our attention set on God. In standing before God, we open ourselves to God’s work in us. The author then explores the particular situation of night prayer. In hours of darkness and sleeplessness, we are vulnerable to the anxieties and fears which daytime activity sometimes holds at bay, but at night the spirit may also become more aware ...

The Prayer is a refuge because it offers peace to the soul, but it does not generate inertia, on the contrary, it activates the action transformadora. The assiduous practitioner becomes stronger and still in the middle of the world, it finds in itself the sufficient distance between the stimuli and the reaction. It spread this one interior, previously to the answer that happens to the events, to he allows to act with deliberation, looking for the coherence between its conduct and the message of the Gospel. The Prayer of the Holy Name, known also like the Prayer of the heart, is a particular...

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja 79 pravoslavnyh molitv za boljashhih: Molitva o bol'nom, kotoromu net nadezhdy na vyzdorovlenie, kotoryj muchitsja i muchit drugih, skoree byl prizvan k Bogu. Molitva o boljashhih ko Gospodu. Molitva o tom, chtoby uhazhivat' s ljuboviju za boljashhimi. Molitva ob iscelenii bol'nogo....

For many generations, a wealthy Russian-American family has been tracking down an important and priceless ancient family relic; the Holy Chalice of their ancestors. This is the gilded cup used by the clergy to serve the Mystery of the Eucharist to the ancient Emperors of Byzantium, and their successors after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. With nothing but dead ends and hard stops to show for their efforts, the family turns to employ Thomas Fernandes, a former Roman Catholic priest who himself was once called upon to recover a holy relic for the Vatican. But the family is not the only ...

Prayer, repentance, and the hidden life of the heart meet in a classic work of Russian Orthodox spirituality. St. John of Kronstadt wrote My Life in Christ not as a theory of devotion, but as a spiritual journal: brief meditations born from prayer, self-examination, pastoral struggle, Scripture, and the life of the Church. In these pages he speaks directly about faith and doubt, sin and mercy, spiritual watchfulness, humility and pride, the sacraments, the saints, the wounds of the passions, and the nearness of Christ in ordinary life. The result is a book for slow reading. A single ...

Alexei Navalny was Putin's most formidable opponent: an anti-corruption activist, a politician, and ultimately, a martyr. But was he also something else? This book makes a startling claim: that Navalny, whether he intended to or not, walked a path strikingly similar to Christ's. While the official Russian Orthodox Church blessed weapons and preached submission to Caesar, an atheist in an Arctic punishment cell was memorizing the Sermon on the Mount and joking about being Santa Claus. While patriarchs wore gold, Navalny wore prison stripes, confronting a corrupt empire with truth as his only...

Three Saints Tikhon: Light in Our Times Lives and Miracles of Modern Orthodox Saints Experience the profound spiritual journey of three extraordinary men who bore the same name and shared a singular devotion to God. In this inspiring collection, discover the lives of three pillars of Orthodoxy: Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, the "Helper in Sadness"; Saint Tikhon (Bellavin), the courageous Patriarch of Moscow and Apostle to America ; and the hidden Athonite treasure, Elder Tikhon (Golenkov), the spiritual father to the world-renowned Saint Paisios. Though they lived in different eras, their lives ...

'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.' Drawing from his perilous career investigating the frontiers of the Russian empire, Zygar reveals how 350 years of propaganda...

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja 187 pravoslavnyh molitv: Pravoslavnye molitvy svjatym. Pravoslavnye molitvy za detej. Pravoslavnye molitvy o semejnom blagopoluchii. Pravoslavnye molitvy za boljashhih.

The Russian Leonardo: Scientist, Priest, Martyr. Most people have never heard of Pavel Florensky. Yet, he was a man who refused to be only one thing. In the turbulent heart of Soviet Russia, he was a mathematician who wore his priestly cassock to engineering conferences. He was an electrical engineer who argued that Einstein’s relativity describes the geometry of the Kingdom of God. He was a philosopher, art historian, and botanist who filed seven patents while imprisoned in a Gulag. The Sacred Scientist tells the extraordinary story of a polymath who saw no conflict between the ...

A hidden Russian Orthodox classic of spiritual counsel, newly translated for English readers. George Mashurin, remembered as the Recluse of Zadonsk, lived a life of hidden prayer, repentance, and spiritual struggle at the Zadonsk Bogoroditsky Monastery. Though withdrawn from ordinary public life, he became a source of counsel for souls seeking help in suffering, temptation, discouragement, repentance, and the Christian life. Letters from the Recluse of Zadonsk gathers his spiritual letters in a clear English edition for Orthodox readers, inquirers, and anyone drawn to the Russian tradition ...

A fresh English translation of the letters of St. Ambrose of Optina, one of the great spiritual elders of the Russian Orthodox Church. At the height of Optina Monastery’s spiritual flowering, St. Ambrose became known as a wise and compassionate elder whose counsel reached monks, families, widows, parents, converts, the sick, the sorrowing, and Christians struggling to live faithfully in the world. St. Ambrose of Optina: Letters to Spiritual Children in the World gathers his spiritual letters to laypeople into a reader’s edition for Orthodox Christians seeking guidance in prayer, ...

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja 50 pravoslavnyh molitv o semejnom blagopoluchii: Molitva devicy o supruzhestve. Molitva pri brakosochetanii. Molitvennoe vozdyhanie hristianskoj suprugi vo vremja beremennosti. Molitvy v opasenii nasilija devstvennosti i celomudrija….

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja 27 pravoslavnyh molitv za detej: Molitva o pros'be rodit' mal'chika. Molitva o vskarmlivanii grud'ju mladencev. Molitvennoe vozdyhanie hristianskoj suprugi vo vremja beremennosti....

For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills—from the Mongol yoke, to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, Soviet atheism, the chaotic 1990s and now two decades of Vladimir Putin. In this provocative new book, Lucy Ash reveals how, under Putin, religion is being stripped of its spiritual content and used as a weapon to control the population in a way never seen before. Orthodox clerics and their acolytes are trying to drag Russia backwards into a new Middle Ages.