Spirituality

In the Didache, you will discover an incredible witness to Christian life during the first century. Through this truly enlightening ancient guidebook, you will uncover the true story of community...

This beautiful poetic prayer was composed by Metropolitan Tryphon (Turkestanov) in 1929, at the height of the Soviet persecution. It is a hymn of gratitude that became his personal spiritual...

Saint Ignatius was a disciple of the Apostle John, and he learned the Christian Faith directly from the eyewitnesses of Christ. He served as the third bishop of Antioch, from about the year 70...

This 84-page booklet includes short daily scripture readings and prayers for the entire Orthodox Advent-Epiphany season (November 15 through January 14), interspersed with full-color icons. This is...

This masterpiece was the first of hundreds of Kontakia (musical sermons) written by Saint Romanos the Melodist at the inspiration of the Virgin Mary. It takes the form of a dialogue between Mary...

This 84-page booklet includes short daily scripture readings and prayers for the entire Orthodox Lent and Pascha season (104 days in all), interspersed with full-color icons. Similar to the Advent...

Orthodox Study Bible – Ancient Faith Edition Deepen Your Faith with the Definitive Orthodox Study Bible The

The Way of the Cross (or Stations of the Cross) is a well-known and popular devotion to the Passion of Christ whose roots can be traced to the earliest centuries of the Church, when the faithful...

Saint John Climacus, sixth century abbot of Sinai, compared the spiritual life to a ladder of thirty steps, and explained in detail the challenges presented by each of those steps. This spiritual...

The author, St. Nikolai (Velimirovic) of Ohrid and Zhicha (1880-1956), has been called the "Serbian Chrysostom" for his theological depth and golden tongued eloquence. His Prologue has become a...

The Heavenly Gift: The Art of Liturgical Bread-Making is much more than a recipe guide for prosphoro and artoclasia. It brings to light the joy and unique privilege of preparing and offering...

Nowadays, many people in all parts of the world are discovering the Orthodox Church as the only source of life and truth able to satisfy man's spiritual thirst and hunger. And because they feel...

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...

Translated by the V. Rev. Archimandrite Maximos Constas, is a collection of 13 prayers and 3 canons to the Mother of God. The prayers, originally written in Greek, are ascribed to St Ephraim the...

Love your Enemies - Spiritual Life Series vol. 4 by Hieromonk Gregorios, Elder of the Cell of St. John the Theologian, Koutloumousiou Monastery, Mount Athos. Trans. by Stelios Zarganes. Oftentimes...

Popular Patristics Series - Number 7  by Saint John Chrysostom. Translated by Catharine P. Roth & David Anderson. Christian tradition often seems to give only grudging approval to the married life,...

Illness and the Believer - Spiritual Life Series vol. 5 by Hieromonk Gregorios, Elder of the Cell of St. John the Theologian, Koutloumousiou Monastery, Mount Athos. Trans. by Fr. Michael Monos...

Since the middle Byzantine period, one of the most widely read texts on the Jesus Prayer was a lengthy letter said to be written by St John Chrysostom. The letter assumed increasing authority in...

The Vice of Envy - Spiritual Life Series vol. 7 by Hieromonk Gregorios, Elder of the Cell of St. John the Theologian, Koutloumousiou Monastery, Mount Athos. Trans. by Fr. Michael Monos. All...

The Lamentations to the Theotokos are sung on the feast of the Dormition on August 15, before a special Epitaphios depicting the Theotokos in the grave. Modeled after the Lamentations to the Lord...

This biography of the great miracle-worker Saint John of Kronstadt, whose My Life in Christ is a spiritual classic known throughout the Orthodox world and beyond, was written by I.K. Sursky, who...

The Life of a celebrated Fool for Christ's sake in sixth-century Syria, written by Leontius, Bishop of Neapolis in Cyprus, who also wrote the life of Saint John the Almsgiver. A very edifying life,...

Way of the Asceticsis a rich, compact introduction for modern readers to the Eastern Christian spiritual tradition that has been an inspiration to millions for centuries. These compassionate and...

This book by Fr. Daniel Daly, spiritual father of Legacy Icons founder David DeJonge, explores his personal journey of discovering the Orthodox Church in the 1970s and 80s. Publisher's...

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...

This title is a popular choice for spiritual reading during the season of the Nativity Fast, November 15-December 24. Explore the meaning of the Advent season and grow spiritually through this...

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...

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...

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 Church welcomes the Lenten spring with a spirit of exultation...with the enthusiasm of a child... The tone of the church services is one of brightness and light." Thus the author begins the...

  Most priests are constantly looking for new volunteers to bake Prosphora. If this is something you're interested in, get started with in the prayerful art of liturgical bread making right now! Our...

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...

The Art of Seeing explores sacred images in light of Orthodox theology, making special use of perspectives and insights from the patristic interpretation of sacred texts. Drawing on the disciplines...