Living Without Hypocrisy: Spiritual Counsels of the Holy Elders of Optinaby George (Schaefer) This modest work is an anthology of spiritual advice given by various of the nineteenth century Holy Elders of Optina Monastery, organized thematically under headings such as spiritual warfare, the love of neighbor, faith, the will of God, the education of children, the commandments of God, the path of salvation, etc. Each piece of advice varies in length from a single sentence to a full paragraph. Pithy, immediately accessible,

Well illustrated with black and white photographs and icons

Popular Patristics Series Volume 61

This book contains the homilies as well as the wonderous life of the Abbess of blessed memory

Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896-1966) - this work was translated by an American convert to the Orthodox Faith who was a beloved disciple of St

Michael Pomazansky

not part of the Russian text

of the death of our departed ones

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Conqueror of death

no fewer thousands of monks and nuns

Hansen's Disease

psychological level

• Selections from Great Lent and the Paschal season (Triodion and Pentecostarion)