Books

John Thomas’ intimate work documents the Sacred Holy Week services of the Orthodox Church. The journey climaxes into the most hopeful day of all Christianity – Easter commonly referred to as “Pascha”. Each day of Holy Week captures both the community’s prayerful participation and the spirituality of each service as experienced by the faithful worldwide.

Two essays, "Love and Sexuality in the Image of Divine Love" and "The Sacrament of Marriage: The Orthodox Service" introduce the reader to the Orthodox perspective on this all-important issue. With extensive excerpts from twenty-two Church fathers and modern Orthodox theologians.

Song of the Talanton, a soft cover picture book with an accompanying audio CD, takes a unique look at Eastern Orthodox monasticism, focusing on prayer, silence and watchfulness. At the moment of sunrise, a pilgrim visiting a women s monastery senses Christ's mystical presence in the rhythmic call of the talanton. Song of the Talanton teaches children to listen and to be ready for God's presence.

In chronological order, the lives of nearly 500 saints of the Orthodox Church, simply and briefly told for the general reader. Covers the liturgucal period of July 1-Sep 30

Within these pages a younger generation of Orthodox scholars in America takes up the perennial task of transmitting the meaning of Christianity to a particular time and culture. This collection of twelve essays, as the title Thinking Through Faith implies, is the result of six years of reflective conversation and collaboration regarding core beliefs of the Orthodox faith, tenets that the authors present from fresh perspectives that appeal to reason and spiritual sensibilities alike.

The most complete introduction to the most mysterious prayer of Christian tradition. In the earliest centuries of faith, Christians in the deserts of... More

Prayers taken from the Synekdemos to guide you through the day. Communion prayers. English and Greek.

In the World, Yet Not of the World represents a selection of major addresses and significant messages as well as public statements by His All Holiness... More

Give your teens the gift that will challenge their faith and help them on the road to making that faith their own. Hear Me is a prayer book designed to address the unique challenges Orthodox youth experience in their walk with Christ.

This revised edition of Father Alexander Schmemann's Lenten classic examines the meaning of Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, the Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian, the Canon of St Andrew of Crete and other neglected or misunderstood treasures of Lenten worship.