A full account of the life of the great fourth century saint of Asia Minor and his evolution into the modern Fr. Christmas.

Acquire the spirit of peace and thousands around you will be saved.

An alphabetical listing of Orthodox saints and feast days designed to help us make the commemoration of the saints part of our Christian life.

The Optina monastery was one of the spiritual powerhouses of nineteenth century Russia and has been revived again since the fall of communism.

Portraits of the lives and spiritual journeys of five holy women from nineteenth century Russia.

“For those of us who regretted coming to the end of Father Arseny: Priest,Prisoner, Spiritual Father, this new collection is truly an unexpected joy. These memoirs by his spiritual children place us around the dining room table with that holy man, listening to stories and wisdom that enlighten our own difficult times.”– Frederica Mathewes-Green, L.A. Times

Based on the biography by his disciple Anastasius, this book on the life of a great Confessor of the Faith will provide inspiration for all Christians.

The life and endeavours of a remarkable saint of modern times, written by one of his disciples and including recollections of those who knew him. Includes a service to Saint Nicholas.

Sermons and Letters of Metropolitan Philip Saliba of the Antiochian Orthodox ChristianArchdiocese of North America. Showing thirty-five years of joy and sorrow in service to his flock.

This book presents the reader with the possibility of encounting in depth one of the great saints and spiritual fathers of pre revolutionary Russia.

How did a simple shepherd boy born at the beginning of the twentieth century in Romania become at the age of 29 the Abbot of one of its major monasteries and by the time of his repose in 1998 come to be considered as the spiritual father of all Romania?

Philokalia is Greek for love of the beautiful and good and all philokalic texts inspire in the reader a love for God who is supremely beautiful and good. This collection comes from the forests of eighteenth century Russia and one of the great spiritual teachers who shone forth there prior to the better known St. Seraphim of Sarov.

The life and teachings of one of the last great elders of Optina who was driven from the monastery by the communists in 1923 and had ten years of hard labour in the Karaganda concentration camp in Kazakhstan. Compiled from writings and recollections of his spiritual children who he helped to rise above the dehumanising atmosphere of soviet society.

Fifty full lives of saints commemorated in December are accompanied by a elegant sermon on the Nativity and Incarnation of Christ. Also included are narrative accounts from Scripture and the teaching of the Fathers on the Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, the Flight into Egypt and the Slaying of the Holy Innocents.

Fifty full lives of saints commemorated in December are accompanied by a elegant sermon on the Nativity and Incarnation of Christ. Also included are narrative accounts from Scripture and the teaching of the Fathers on the Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, the Flight into Egypt and the Slaying of the Holy Innocents.

The first complete life of the recently canonized St. Raphael of Brooklyn, the first Orthodox Bishop consecrated in North America.

A most precious memorial of a man who is hardly remembered, yet should never be forgotten.

A heart-warming unfolding of the life of St. Nicholas of Myra from whom the modern Father Christmas has evolved. More then this, adults are shown how the communion of saints can be a reality in their own life and conveyed to their children.

A consideration of the origins and place of sainthood in Byzantine society, the Saint`s life as a literary genre and The Saint in Cult and Art.