The Life
Childhood and Youth 35
Initial Difficulties and Aid from Grace 41
Settlement in Katounakia with Elder Ephrem 49
The Move to St Basil and the Death of Elder Ephrem 58
The Time of Bitter Struggles 62
The Nature and Forms of Trials 66
The Discovery of the Hesychast Elder Daniel
as Spiritual Father 70
The Trials Grow More Intense 81
Various Trials and Manifest Aid from Our Lady
the Mother of God 93
From St Basil to Little St Anna 109
The Move to New Skete 141
Teaching
On Sanctification and Dispassion 159
On Discovering the Will of God 166
On Regime and Disorder 172
On Trials and the Spiritual Law 178
The Differences between the Trials 182
The Law of Changes in Our Practical Life 187
Negligence, the Unsleeping Danger for the Christian 195
On Prayer 198
On Discrimination and Perspicacity 209

On Obedience 214
On Contemplation, and How Those Who Are Worthy
Contemplate 219

The descent of the Holy Fire at the tomb of Jesus every Holy Saturday is the only miraculous event in human history which has taken place each year on the same day for more than one and a half millennia. Covering a period of thirteen centuries (4th–16th c.), this book assembles historical accounts of the celebrated event.

Seventy authors—fourteen French, nine Englishmen, seven Byzantine Greeks, six Germans, five Armenians, five Muslim Arabs, four Italians, four Persians, three Russians, three Icelanders, two Egyptians, two Chaldeans, one Syrian, one Moldavian, one Ethiopian, one Belgian, one Austrian and one Swiss—describe the greatest miracle of the Christian world: the Holy Fire (i.e., the Light of the Resurrection of Christ) which appears every Holy Saturday at the tomb of Jesus, a few hours before the celebration of his resurrection.

Furthermore, the scientific measurements that were taken in the tomb of Jesus on Holy Saturday in 2008 by Associate Professor Antrey Volkov, confirm the descent of the Holy Fire and reveal three phenomena, which he himself characterizes as “incredible and entirely inexplicable.”

This book also includes a historical and archeological study concerning the original appearance of Jesus’ tomb and the rock of Golgotha, along with a series of reconstruction drawings of the two locations, as they looked in AD 33.

Ποίημα Αγίου Ανδρέα Κρήτης

Τό κείμενο τοῦ Μεγάλου Κανόνος μέ μετάφραση στίς ἀντικριστές σελίδες σέ μικρό καί εὔχρηστο σχῆμα. Σελίδες 237.

Ἕνας ὕμνος στὴν ὡραιότητα τῆς Παναγίας. Ἕνα τραγούδι στό παρθενικό μεγαλεῖο της. Ὅ,τι ἀνώτερο, ὑψηλότερο καί εὐγενέστερο ἔχει νά ἐπιδείξει ἡ ποίηση καί ὑμνογραφία προκειμένου νά ἐγκωμιάσει τή Βασίλισσα τῶν Ἀγγέλων, τήν Παντάνασσα τοῦ κόσμου, ἔχει συνοψιστεῖ στόν Ἀκάθιστο Ὕμνο. Τό ἐγκόλπιο αὐτό μέ τό κείμενο καί τή μετάφραση θά σέ βοηθήσει νά ἑνώσεις τή φωνή σου πιό δυνατά, πιό καρδιακά, μέ ὅλες τίς φωνές πού τιμοῦν καί δοξάζουν καί μεγαλύνουν τήν Ὑπεραγία Θεοτόκο σέ ὅλα τά πλάτη καί μήκη τῆς γῆς.