Orthodox Spirituality

Item No. 006075 by Phoebe Farag Mikhail Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church is an invitation to a life of joy. Phoebe Farag Mikhail explains what joy is...

Item No. 9781955890342 by Robin Phillips Though it's often too subtle to see, much of modern Christianity has fallen prey to the ancient Gnostic heresy which taught that the material world has no...

Item No. 006145 by Archmandrite Zacharias Remember Thy First Love is a graphic description of the three stages in the Christian life according to Elder Sophrony of Essex (1896-1993), disciple of St...

Item No. 9781944967840 by Rev. Dr. Nicholas G. Louh and Dr. Roxanne K. Louh Are you struggling in your walk with Christ? Do you want to rediscover your reason for living, the person you were...

Item No. 006113 by Mary Naumenko Written close to the end of the great writer’s life, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man tells of a transformation of the heart and a...

Item No. 009201 V. Rev. David Fontes, General Editor An introduction to the eastern Orthodox faith with stories from 13 contributing authors on how they converted to Orthodoxy. What do a former...

Item No. 006108 by Saint Nikolai Velimirovic, edited by Daniel M. Rogich This text, Come Alive in God - originally titled Thoughts on Good and Evil - provides the best of Nikolai’s aphorisms on...

Item No. 008735 by Ivan Ilyich Sergiev (St. John of Kronstadt) Each year we begin anew the journey to the radiant feast of Pascha, entering the season of repentance known as Great Lent. The...

Item No. 9781944967857 by Melinda Johnson, Laura Jansson, Georgia Briggs, Molly Sabourin, Anna Neill, Summer Kinard, Katherine Bolger Hyde, and Melissa Naasko Written by a group of friends, ​Seven...

Item No. 007010 by Scott Cairns Poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into a midlife crisis, but his crisis was not a desperate attempt to recapture youth, as often occurs among men...

Item No. 9781944967529 by Sylvia Leontaritis "A psalm is a city of refuge from the demons, a means of inducing help from the angels, a weapon in fears by night, a rest from toils by day, a...

Item No. 9781936270552 compiled by Analisa Boyd, author of Hear Me Cover and interior design by Mark Wainwright, with illustrations by Sheena Hisiro You're never too young to be one of the "special...

Item No. 9781955890434 by +Bishop Alexei of Sitka and Alaska What is the spiritual significance of almsgiving in the life of a believer? Bishop Alexei of Sitka and Alaska (OCA) draws on a wealth of...

Item No. 004650 by Archimandrite Sophrony In the autumn of 1892 a young Russian peasant named Simeon from the province of Tambov was drawn to that ancient repository of Orthodox spirituality, Mt...

Item No. 9781888212631 by Fr. Meletios Webber An Orthodox priest with a doctorate in counseling, Fr. Webber helps us to understand addiction and explores ways to overcome it. He clearly and...

Item No. 008698 by Bishop Irenei From the richness of his work as a Professor of Patristics and Early Church History, His Grace, Bishop Irenei offers us in this small but timely volume, as balm for...

Item No. 004518 by Nun Christina A Supplicatory Canon in the Byzantine Rite, is a service of supplication for the welfare of the living.   Author: Nun Christina Paperback: NA Dimensions: 6 x 9...

Item No. 9781944967536 by Elissa Bjeletich and Kristina Wenger Are you looking for a way to keep your family engaged in the true spiritual nourishment Lent has to offer? Tending the Garden of Our...

Item No. 9781955890236 by John Strickland The Age of Nihilism: Christendom from the Great War to the Culture Wars - Paradise and Utopia: The Rise and Fall of What the West Once Was, VOLUME FOUR (of...

Item No. 006071 by Rev. Dr. Demetrios Harper The Analogy of Love examines the ethical dimensions of St Maximus the Confessor's theological synthesis in order to retrieve an authentically Christian...

Item No. 9781936270903 Green cover. Edited by Vassilios Papavassiliou, The Ancient Faith Prayer Book brings together the most ancient and popular prayers of Orthodox Christians with some additions...

Item No. 9781944967284 Burgundy cover. Edited by Vassilios Papavassiliou, The Ancient Faith Prayer Book brings together the most ancient and popular prayers of Orthodox Christians with some...

Item No. 9781955890335 This large-print edition of The Ancient Faith Prayer Book includes an industry standard 16pt font on bright white paper. This edition is ideal for the visually impaired,...

Item No. 9781944967086 A dedicated group of Orthodox monks (who wish to remain anonymous) have created a fresh English translation of the Masoretic Hebrew text of the Psalter, corrected to the...

Item No. 9781944967086 This large-print edition of The Ancient Faith Psalter includes an industry standard 16pt font on bright white paper. This edition is ideal for the visually impaired, late-night...

Item No. 000111 by Ignatius Brianchaninov, with a foreword by Kallistos Ware One of the most important texts of Eastern Orthodox Christian teaching on the spiritual life, this book draws upon the...

Item No. 9781955890786 by Elissa Bjeletich Davis Each year after Pascha, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Holy Myrrhbearers, who cared for Jesus’ body after He was crucified. But myrrhbearing has a...

Item No. 009962 compiled by Igumen Chariton of Valamo, translated by Kadloubovsky & Palmer, edited with an introduction by Kallistos Ware A spiritual anthology concerned in particular with the most...

Item No. 9781955890694 by Annalisa Boyd Annalisa Boyd knows motherhood—its challenges, its joys, and its potential for spiritual growth. In this prayer book she offers a wide selection of prayers...

Item No. 001302 Translated by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery The Ascetical Homilies are sublime treatises on the life of prayer and stillness - hesychasm - and have been treasured by monastics...

Item No. 006073 by John Behr The homilies collected here were delivered, and worked over, during the last decade at the Three Hierarchs’ Chapel of St Vladimir’s Seminary. These homilies follow the...

Item No. 006118 by Timothy G. Patitsas Chaste and ardent eros for the Beautiful is the first task of human life, and falling in love with Beauty is the beginning of every adventure that matters.....

Item No. 008087 By Ignatius Brianchaninov, translated by Nicholas Kotar The spiritual harvest requires a heart that is harrowed by repentance, softened by compunction, and irrigated by tears. The...

Item No. 005495 by Archimandrite Seraphim Aleksiev Every Christian feels a natural yearning of the heart towards God, a true desire to taste the sweetness of communion, of being with Him as He...

Item No. 006083 by Daniel M. Rogich The Friend of God: An Illustrated Manual of the Jesus Prayer was born out of a years of practice and teaching and a generous impulse to pass on lessons from the...

Item No. 008479 by Dionysius Farasiotis This powerful memoir tells the story of a Greek youth who, out of a desire to know the truth empirically, began to experiment in yoga, hypnotism, and various...

Item No. 9781944967772 by Mother Alexandra First published in 1981 and long out of print, The Holy Angels has yet to be surpassed as a comprehensive and comprehensible account of the nature of the...

Item No. 001674 by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos  Publishes the basic points of discussion which the author had with a group of Christians. The introduction to the book records a few details...

Item No. 9781888212266 "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...

Item No. 008670 by Frederica Mathewes-Green If you have ever struggled with incessant thoughts and worries, the ancient desert fathers and mothers offer a profound source of wisdom for quieting the...

Item No. 9781955890809 by Dylan Pahman Jesus taught that whenever we feed the hungry or clothe the naked, we do that for Him (Matt. 25:40). But our economies today look much different than that of...

Item No. 005033 by Saint John Climacus, translated by Father Lazarus Moore Saint John Climacus, sixth-century abbot of Sinai, compared the spiritual life to a ladder of thirty steps, and explained...

Item No. 000428 by Fr. Thomas Hopko Forty meditations on Great Lent, revealing, in a simple, clear and beautiful manner, its true meaning. In his meditations, Fr Hopko draws on his long experience...

Item No. 003001 by Pope Shenouda III The Life of Repentance and Purity provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the practice of repentance and purity, essential aspects of Christian life...

Item No. 9781944967826 by Laura E. Wolfe Many centuries ago in the wilds of Africa, a startling and mystical friendship developed between a lion and a saint. St. Gerasim served the lion by removing...

Item No. 9781955890533 by Fr Andrew Stephen Damick The modern world doesn't acknowledge but is nevertheless haunted by spirits - angels, demons, and saints. In our time, many yearn to break free of...

Item No. 005867 by Archimandrite Seraphim Aleksiev Where have we gone wrong that we suffer so meaninglessly? Archimandrite Seraphim answers this question with penetrating clarity and with a...

Item No. 004636 by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos  translated from the Greek by Esther Williams The book emphasizes that the Church is not a human organization but a Divine-Human organism. It is...

Item No. 9781936270989 by Abbot Tryphon Thousands of readers and listeners have benefited from the fatherly wisdom and insight of The Morning Offering, the blog and podcast of Abbot Tryphon of...

Item No. 006037 by Kyriacos Markides An acclaimed expert in Christian mysticism travels to a monastery high in the Mountains of Cyprus and offers a fascinating look at the Greek Orthodox approach...

Item No. 006089 by Daniel Sysoev This book contains wonderful, mysterious words - words concerning the Creator of the ages Himself. All Christians are baptized in His name - the name of the Father,...

Item No. 0008696 by Frederica Mathewes-Green Discover how icons can become part of your own life of prayer. Encounter twelve of the world’s most significant Orthodox icons with one of today’s...

Item No. 005578 by Fr. George Grube A practical handbook of the Church for laypeople and inquirers. Packed with useful information about the Church, i.e. what it teaches, how it worships, its...

Item No. 006584 by Bishop Kallistos Ware An excellent companion to Bishop Kallistos's book The Orthodox Church, this book discusses the spiritual life of the Christian and sets forth basic issues...

Item No. 002710 by St. Theophan the Recluse This classic textbook of the spiritual life, by St. Theophan the Recluse, breathes with the saint's profound psychological understanding, his intricate...

Item No. 002212 by Fr. Anthony M. Coniaris, with a preface by Stanley S. Harakas This book helps to bring the Orthodox spirituality of the Philokalia out of the monastery into everyday living. It...

Item No. 008725 translated by Holy Transfiguration Monastery  The full text of the English translation of the Psalms from the Septuagint Greek, newly formatted as a pocket edition for personal use...

Item No. 004506 by Saint Nektarios Written eleven years into Saint Nektarios’s tenure as the Director of the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School in Athens, The Priestly Engolpion is the distillation of...

Item No. 008140 by Ignatius (Brianchaninov), translated by Nicholas Kotar "Prayer is a refuge of God’s great mercy to the human race." The refuge is a place of inner stillness and peace where the...

Item No. 9781936270422 by Constantina R. Palmer Every monastery exudes the scent of holiness, but women's monasteries have their own special flavor. Join Constantina Palmer as she makes frequent...

Item No. 9781944967680 by Donald Sheehan, compiled and edited by Xenia Sheehan In this posthumous collection of poet and teacher Donald Sheehan's reflections on Psalms and psalmic prayer, culled...

Item No. 002711 by St. Theophan the Recluse The new edition of The Spiritual Life is enhanced with a larger format (6 X 9), a full-color icon of the saint, and colorful pages through the book...

Item No. 9781955890205 by Matthew the Poor Part history, part theology, part devotional, The Story of Jesus explores the complete life and teachings of Our Lord from before His conception in the womb...

Item No. 006111 by St. John of Tobolsk (Maximovitch) "May our love for the Sun, the will of God, be as strong as the sunflower’s, so that even in days of hardship and sorrow we will continue to...

Item No. 9781944967048 by Constantina R. Palmer From the author of The Scent of Holiness, The Sweetness of Grace is a collection of stories derived

Item No. 008867 by a Monk of Mount Athos Translated by Rev. Dr. George Dokos Written by an anonymous priest-monk living in asceticism on the Holy Mountain of Athos, The Watchful Mind is the fruit...

Item No. 003746 The Way of the Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way by an anonymous author This edition was translated by Olga Savin, and includes a foreword by Fr. Thomas Hopko This...

Item No. 006819 by Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra A collection of spiritual talks by Elder Aimilianos, expressing his personal experience of God, which was always real, living and dynamic...

This title can only be ordered if shipping to a destination within the United States. Item No. 9781944967512 by Angela Doll Carlson The Philokalia - a collection of the best writings from Orthodox...

Item No. 000517 by Fr. Thomas Hopko "When the winter begins to make way into the Northern World, the Church of Christ begins to celebrate a 'splendid three-day Pascha.' " Thus Father Thomas Hopko...

Item No. 9781955890830 by Andrew Stephen Damick and Seraphim Richard Rohlin Poised between East and West, between Orthodox and Catholic, Lithuania, the last of Europe’s pagan nations, did not forget...

Item No. 004508 by Saint Nektarios Saint Nektarios’ Theological work is deeply rooted in the biblical and patristic tradition. The purpose of his theological writing was two-fold: to fill in the...

Item No. 9781944967703 by Dr. Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou What does it mean to "think Orthodox"? What are the unspoken and unexplored premises and presumptions underlying what Christians...

Item No. 9781936270897 by Vassilios Papavassiliou Many laypeople have attempted to read the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, but have been frustrated in attempting to apply...

Item No. 9781955890519 by Vassilios Papavassiliou This large-print edition of Thirty Steps to Heaven includes an industry standard 16pt font on bright white paper. This edition is ideal for the...

Item No. 006013 The Spiritual Testament of St. Seraphim (+1949) of Vyritsa, Russia This pocket-sized booklet is a letter which the Saint sent to his spiritual child, a bishop who was in a Soviet...

Item No. 008686 by Saint Theophan the Recluse St. Theophan takes us through the yearly cycle of Gospel and Epistle readings, humbly and reverently offering us brief but powerful daily meditations...

Item No. 9781955890816 by Fr. Evan Armatas In this sequel to Toolkit for Spiritual Growth: A Practical Guide to Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving, Fr. Evan Armatas covers three additional spiritual...

Item No. 9781944967819 by Fr. Evan Armatas Are you a new Orthodox Christian, confused about what you need to do to grow in your Faith? Or perhaps you've been Orthodox for some time but could use a...

Item No. 9781888212655 by Fr. John Oliver "Deep in a northern Russian forest of jade and brown, far from any hint of civilization, Valaam Monastery sinks into the seasons of the year as it has for...

Item No. 9781944967055 by Kevin Scherer Our first parents departed from what it means to be truly human when they ate from the forbidden tree. Ever since, humans have been working with corrupted...

Item No. 9781888212228 by Saint Theophan the Recluse Translated from the Russian by Kenneth Kaisch and Igumen Iona Zhiltsov One of the most profound works on repentance in all of Christendom. St...

Item No. 9781944967697 by Nicole M. Roccas Infertility ranks among the hardest griefs a couple can face. Yet this painful issue is all too often neglected in both Church and society. Under the...

Item No. 9780962271366 One volume in the Unseen Warfare series edited by Fr. Jack Sparks Father Jack Sparks has masterfully adapted the material from this highly treasured monastic work...

Item No. 9780962271380 One volume in the Unseen Warfare series edited by Fr. Jack Sparks Father Jack Sparks has masterfully adapted the material from this highly treasured monastic work...

Item No. 008715 by Archimandrite Sophrony In this book, written when he was ninety-two years old as his spiritual autobiography, Fr. Sophrony reveals to the world his own experience of union with...

Item No. 9781944967970 by L. Joseph Letendre In this companion volume to the popular When You Pray, L. Joseph Letendre explores the underpinnings of the Church's practice of fasting and of ascetic...

Item No. 9781955890564 by L. Joseph Letendre In this companion volume to When You Pray and When You Fast, L. Joseph Letendre juxtaposes scriptural and patristic admonitions about almsgiving with a...

Item No. 9781944967239 by L. Joseph Letendre Anyone who prays, or has tried to pray and given up in discouragement, knows praying—really praying—is not easy. Praying consistently seems almost...

Item No. WHENset by L. Joseph Letendre SAVE when you purchase the 3-Book Set (When You Pray, When You Fast, and When You Give)! When You Pray Anyone who prays, or has tried to pray and given up...

Item No. 006176 Staretz, or "elder", is a title given to Orthodox monks of particular spiritual development. Staretz Silouan was a Russian peasant whose only formal education consisted of two...

Item No. 9781936270514 by Matthew the Poor This series constitutes the first appearance in English of a selection of the informal talks Abba Matta gave to his fellow monks and to visitors. In...

Item No. 9781936270453 by Matthew the Poor This volume is the first appearance in English of a selection of the informal talks Abba Matta gave to his fellow monks and to visitors. In simple,...

Item No. 004503 by Saint Nektarios While Saint Nektarios is already renowned for being a wonderworker, a prolific writer, a gifted preacher, and, of course, a divinely inspired spiritual father,...

Item No. 006030 This book contains the homilies as well as the wonderous life of the Abbess of blessed memory, the venerable Gerondissa Makrina Vassopoulou. "The venerable Makrina was blessed. All...

Item No. 007260 by Elder Porphyrios. Translated by John Raffan Elder Porphyrios, a Greek monk and priest who died in 1991, stands in the long tradition of charismatic spiritual guides in the Eastern...

Item No. 006200 by Sister Anastasia The spirit of the age contradicts all that Christ teaches, and many reject or leave the Church to satisfy their longing for the supernatural in esoteric traditions...