The Synaxarion: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox ChurchThe lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church by Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra, Mt. Athos. The Complete Synaxarion consist of 7 hardcover volumes, with 6 volumes, each one covering two months of the liturgical calendar (arranged in sequence by calendar date), and with over 550 pages in each volume, illustrated with numerous icons, miniatures, and ornaments from Byzantine manuscripts, some of these latter painted by the nuns of Ormylia. Each

Seraphim Rose’s early studies of the Tao Teh Ching

is a true treasure of Orthodox Christianity

Staretz Silouan was placed in the canon of saints by the Ecumenical Patriarchate

priest families

sweet wine

But all that changes the day he finds a bronze cross at the site of the historic Viking settlement

and includes a biography of the author

which has been handed down to us as the Church’s certain

where he endured privation with great humility and trust in the Lord

This hermit of the Egyptian desert draws our attention to those things which are essential in the spiritual life

whose holiness made him one of the most influential monks on the Holy Mountain in the twentieth century

” one of his most popular writings in its original language