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Prayer and Devotionals

POCKET PSALTER - $14
The full text of the English translation of the Psalms from the Septuagint Greek, newly formatted as a pocket edition for personal use. | Up
COURAGE TO PRAY - $10.95
The discovery of prayer, man's realtionship with God is what gives us hope and courage to pray. The subject of prayer is explored as an essential element of self-awarness. | Up
THE LORD’S PRAYER: WRITINGS OF ST. NIKOLAI VELIMIROVIC - $9.95
This beautifully adorned selection of the writings of St. Nicholai (famous for the Prologue of Ochrid) contains his soul-stirring "Devout Interpretation" of the Lord's Prayer and three of his teachings, entitled: The Mystery of the Touch, Christ Died for Us, and Angels: Our Elder Brethren. | Up The Illumined Heart - $13.95
Frederica Mathewes-Green, whose books on Eastern Orthodoxy have popularized ancient Christian practice for a modern audience, beautifully underscores the importance of following the precedent of the earliest Christians in The Illumined Heart: The Ancient Christian Path of Transformation. Too often, she argues, contemporary Christians bend to the "confusing winds" of change, subordinating Christian tradition to popular ideas. (So stubborn is she in her claim for the superiority of ancient wisdom that she offers an unusual disclaimer at the outset: "I hope not to say anything original. If I do, ignore it.") Mathewes-Green thoughtfully reflects upon how 21st-century Christians can incorporate early spiritual practices, such as continuous prayer, spiritual direction, fasting and communal worship. | Up
THE OPEN DOOR - $16
Perhaps most think of icons as examples of Christian art, powerful and often mysterious--indeed, intimidating somehow. Yet, whether painted or in mosaic, they are more than beautiful works of art, more than representations of persons and events in the Bible and in the history of the church. Mathewes-Green's contribution to Paraclete's Pocket Faith series invites readers to look at icons as companions to faith and prayer. She chooses 12 of the most significant icons, reproduced and distributed throughout Orthodox Christendom, to examine at length: the Resurrection, the Virgin of Vladimir, the Christ of Sinai, St. John the Baptist, the Angel with the Golden Hair, the Annunciation, the Nativity, Theophany, the Transfiguration, the Crucifixion, the Epitaphios, and the Old Testament Trinity. She discusses the special days associated with each and their corresponding seasons of the church year. Anyone wishing an enhanced understanding of the meaning and significance of icons and their place in daily worship will find here much counsel in little space. | Up