The Path to SalvationSteeped in the Philokalic tradition, the holy Hierarch Theophan was a prolific writer and interpreter of the holy Fathers of the Church, making them accessible to contemporary Christians. Patristic literature has always provided an age old, tried and tested model of spiritual life, foreign to fleeting fashions. St. Theophan keeps this traditional model sharp and clear, presenting it in an approachable language. In this book, his crowning achievement,

and in all

as ‘Eternal Beauty’

not philosophizing and speculation

Also included is an Akathist to the Saint

it is mystically repeated in the souls of the  faithful by the power of the Holy Spirit

This 1670 icon from the Armory school of iconography of Moscow is a fitting complement to the icon of the Virgin to its left

of bright sojourns in good and murky dwellings in evil

For one who knew nothing about Orthodox saints from Wales

I Know a Man in Christ

and a constant sense of service—through his labor and love—to those surrounding him

In honor of the upcoming 15th anniversary of the wondrous appearance of the miraculous Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God of Hawaii (2022)

the gifts of the Holy Spirit descended as rain watering the earth