Beginnings of a Life of PrayerThe beginnings of prayer arise from the longing of the heart to know God, to rest in Him Who showed His love upon the precious Cross, to abide in the fullness of communion with Him. In the present booka primer on prayerArchimandrite Irenei first prepares the ground by helping us to count the cost (Luke 14: 28) of our lives as Christians, to take stock of the spiritual struggle we must undertake if we are to ascend toward God in prayer. Then, based on

his crowning achievement

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through the Apostles

Containing dozens of never before published photographs

both during his sojourn on earth and through his intercessions to our Lord in Heaven

” — Elder Barsanuphius Presented here

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worship and what it means to live by the teaching of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes

the Saint himself expresses its precise aim as follows: “It is possible to describe the feelings and inclinations which a Christian must have

which at the same time bravely exposes the lie of the modern philosophy of evolution

After over 12 years of editing and improving on existing texts

Herman was a member of the first group of Orthodox missionaries sent to North America from Russia in the 19th century