Path to ConfessionHere before you, my young friends, is a curious book. It was written for children but grown ups may also find it interesting. It wasn't meant as entertainment but it will captivate you nonetheless, and even though our narrative is serious, it contains many wonderful pictures. This isn't a book of fairy tales, legends or fables, but it will show you the way to a country that has no equal in any country on earth, for it was created by the All Wise God

and of the humility and ingenuity with which he hid his virtues while dwelling in the midst of men

the desert Thebaid of Egypt was the home of thousands of monks and nuns who made the desert a city peopled with Christians striving toward heaven in the angelic way of life

and Early Man has been compiled posthumously from a rich array of materials left behind by Fr

It is full color and nearly 80 pages long

simple and practical advice on how to live a spiritual life within the family

but as the revelation of Jesus Christ as God in the flesh

The second volume of Elder Paisios' spiritual counsels

the holy Bishops John of San Francisco and Mardarije of Libertyille

yet mankind persists in its desire to peer beyond this threshold—a threshold through which we all must pass

" The original icon was painted in Russia by iconographer Natalia Popel

where she began writing the Good Neighbors books

with which both Nicodemus and Theophan realized it shared much in common