Father Arseny - Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual FatherTranslated by Vera Bouteneff, with a new foreword by Peter Bouteneff. It is one of the great mysteries of life that in atmospheres of the harshest cruelty, a certain few not only survive but emerge as beacons of light and life. Father Arseny, former scholar of church art, became Prisoner No. 18736 in the brutal "special sector" of the Soviet prison camp system. In the darkness of systematic degradation of body and soul, he shone with the light of

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Some renderings are reconstructions of original Valamo chants

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It takes years to raise Orthodox Christian children

Elder Thaddeus lived through all the suffering endured by Serbia in the twentieth century

Included are several short and simple explanations on prayer and spiritual life for children

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Writing in the tradition of biblical exegetes such as St John Chrysostom and Blessed Theophylact of Bulgaria

This first English version was written by Mother Nectaria McLees