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The Royal Hours of Pentecost was a liturgical service composed by Fr. Nicholas Malachos of Nafplio in the mid-16th century, about 100 years after the fall of Constantinople. Mirroring the pre-Christmas and pre-Epiphany Royal Hours services still in...

Popular Patristics Series Volume 6 To many modern Christians the question of icon veneration may seem a marginal issue in theology. To St Theodore the Studite, writing in the midst of the iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries, it...

The Pocket Psalter is a must-have for your daily prayer. This popular translation of the Psalter by the monks of Holy Transfiguration Monastery is widely used in the English-speaking Orthodox Church in North America and elsewhere. The book includes the...

The Holy Psalter contains the Psalms and other scriptural Odes that are used throughout the Orthodox Church's liturgical life. It uses the Greek Septuagint ("LXX") Old Testament, the scripture used by the Apostles and the early Christians, and by the...

Popular Patristics Series Volume 9 The sermons of St John Chrysostom are noted as classical commentaries on the Christian life. Knowing well the realities of life in the world, the temptation of rich and poor alike, this great orator--"the...

This unique study provides the reader with both a historical and spiritual understanding of the prayer which simply invokes the name of Jesus. To pronounce the name of Jesus in a holy way is an all-sufficient and surpassing aim for any human life... We...

In his funeral oration for St. Basil, St. Gregory of Nazianzus calls him a "standard of virtue," a "noble champion of the truth," and a "second Joseph" for feeding the hungry in a time of famine. The centuries-long dissemination and study of Basil's...

The Quartodecimans were early Christians who maintained the tradition derived from Judaism, and observed Pascha at the same time that the Jews observed Passover. In this work, Alistair Stewart, the leading authority on Melito and the Quartodecimans,...

This Pocket Prayer Book contains all of the common daily prayers as prayed in the Orthodox (particularly Byzantine) tradition. This translation by the monks of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery is widely used in the English-speaking Orthodox Church in...

Ideal for family use (especially with younger children, with whom it may be harder to get to church as often during Lent and Holy Week), the Stations can be set up around the house with prayerful meditation on each of the Stations. Frankincense...

The Life of Pelagia Ivanovna Serebrenikova, Fool for Christ's Sake of the Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent. Pelagia Ivanovna (1809–1884) was blessed by Saint Seraphim of Sarov to undertake the difficult and arduous life of a Fool for Christ's Sake, a...