The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life

The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Lifetrans. Sebastian Brock An important collection of writings from and about the Fathers of an Orthodox tradition all but unknown in the West. Neither Russian nor Greek, but rather an independent strand of tradition, cut off by the persecutions and invasions and occupations which beset the East throughout most of the centuries since the fall of Constantinople and even before: a voice we need to hear to understand the fullness of Orthodoxy. Paperbound

The arrangement of ecclesiastical chanting into tones was entirely the work of the famous hymnographer of the Byzantine Church

Ignatius (Brianchaninov) as it was published in the year of his death

Ordination

Cyril of Jerusalem

Among the first Optina Elders was Elder Anthony (Putilov) (1795–1865)

no fewer thousands of monks and nuns

SS Bernice

this volumes draws together homilies on some of the best-known and most beloved (and all too often not so well understood

Translation is fresh and readable

elemental and mighty

the clergy who perform divine services and their vestments

Bishop Ignatius equally guides him to prudence