Harbor for Our Hope On Acquiring Peace Amidst Suffering

Harbor for Our Hope On Acquiring Peace Amidst SufferingSt Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807 1867) is renowned as a writer on the spiritual life in general. What is less well known is that throughout most of his adult life he struggled with chronic illness and disability. Thus his own life experience disposed him to reflect on the meaning of suffering for human existence and how through it we might find a harbor for our hope. The saint frequently returns to these themes in many of his letters, newly translated

Akathist Hymn for the Nativity

Returning to his homeland as the first archbishop of the newly organized autocephalous Church of Serbia

Symeon's interpretation of his life and his relationship with God in the light of the Scriptures and the Fathers

the virtues

and they even see the reason for such a thought arising

and brutality

Saints Constantine & Helen

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The Divine vision of the Fathers opens up deeper levels of awareness concerning God’s creation and His ultimate intention for it—levels that cannot be reached through merely rational or scientific means

Using the best of prerevolutionary Russian sources

About the Author: Archbishop John (Shahovskoy) (1902-1989)

The hardbound texts of this series are profusely illustrated with icons