Product Description: A text for students, with translation, introduction and annotations.

Product Description: Although these selections are directed primarily at priests, the laity may profit greatly from the present book. The words of St John are for everyone who desires to devote more attention to their souls and raise their thought to God...read more

Product Description: The nineteenth century in Russia was a time of considerable religious revival. Many thousands of ordinary people of all classes and callings flocked to elders or startsi for spiritual, and also temporal, advice. These startsi, who exercised a remarkable ministry, were generally monks, but one of the most famous Father John of Kronstadt was not a monk, but a married parish priest, rector of a large cathedral in the naval port of Kronstadt...read more

Product Description: Selected translations from the writings of the influential 19th century Russian mystic, revealing his spiritual yet practical approach to the problems of living the Christian life.