Worship and Liturgy

"O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me". This prayer has been on the lips of Christians since the time of the Desert Fathers. What is its history? How do we make it our own prayer? This booklet traces the development of the Jesus Prayer through the early centuries of the Church, and follows its progression through Mount Athos, the teachings of St Gregory Palamas and others, and discusses its modern revival in the 19th and 20th centuries. Concludes with a brief discussion of how this prayer can be appropriated by the individual believer today.

  Learn how to grasp the meaning of the ancient way of praying with icons. In this new series of "little books" you will learn... More

Learn how to grasp the meaning of the ancient way of praying the Jesus Prayer.   In this new series of "little books" you will... More

A Greek and English text. The translation of the English is set to the meter of the original Byzantine hymns. Softcover

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.

Sixteen essays on Orthodox Ethics. Fr. Harakas' "holistic" approach to faith, life, motives, norms, behavior and interior dispositions permeate each volume.

Join Frederica Mathewes-Green on a guided retreat through an ancient Orthodox text. Regardless of your denominational background, First Fruits of Prayer will bring to life the prayer experience of first millennium Christianity through immersion in this poetic hymn, an extraordinarily beautiful work that is still chanted by Christians around the world each Lent. It weaves together Old and New Testament Scriptures with prayers of hope and repentance and offers ancient ways of seeing Christ that still feel new today.

Alexander Schmemann suggests an approach to issues such as secularism and Christian culture from the perspective of the unbroken experience of the Church, as revealed and communicated in her worship, in her liturgy - the sacrament of the world, the sacrament of the Kingdom.

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.

In this study of the Orthodox understanding of Christian initiation, the rites of baptism and chrismation, Fr. Schmemann invites us to "rediscover" baptism.