The Song of TearsThe Great Canon has been described as one of the jewels of Orthodoxys ascetic spirituality. In the first week of Lent, during Great Compline, it is sung and declaimed in portions; on Thursday of the fifth week, during Matins, in its entirety. Throughout, accompanied by bows or prostrations, the refrain is: Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me. This short, yet full, essay by Olivier Clment serves as an enriching commentary and guide for reading

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This convenient pocket size book contains the necessary texts for the celebration of the liturgy of St John Chrysostom by the priest and deacon

who both knew Saint John personally and collected many eye-witness accounts of him for his biography

It examines at length the scriptural foundation for the Church's Faith

Expanded and updated bibliography and source notes

Palladius's work is the only one of the major monastic writings not written for fellow monks to inspire them with models for their emulation but rather for a man very much of the world

"Every one that is of the truth hears my voice" (John 18:37) and according to St Sophrony

The reader will also encounter St Ignatius’s teachings on the nature of the soul and the essence of incorporeal beings

It is a classic exposition of the Jesus Prayer and its use in the Hesychast Orthodox tradition of the prayer of stillness

This hermit of the Egyptian desert draws our attention to those things which are essential in the spiritual life

He alone is capable of intercepting all the bad things that afflict society today

and major themes within