The First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journal through the Canon of St. Andrew Saint Demiana Emerging from the context of

Emerging from the context of the particular tragedies of Soviet Russia

published by SVS Press and SAC Press in the Coptic Studies Series

These memoirs by his spiritual children place us around the dining room table with that holy man

contemporary English

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The First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journal through the Canon of St. Andrew Saint Demiana Emerging from the context of"Sugg. Donation" Join Frederica Mathewes Green on a guided retreat through an ancient Orthodox text. Regardless of your denominational background, First Fruits of Prayer will bring to life the prayer experience of first millennium Christianity through immersion in this poetic hymn, an extraordinarily beautiful work that is still chanted by Christians around the world each Lent. It weaves together Old and New Testament Scriptures with prayers of hope