A Guide to Spiritual Life by the Venerable Fathers Barsanuphius and John
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A Guide to Spiritual Life by the Venerable Fathers Barsanuphius and John
14.99 €
"Accept, beloved brethren, this most soul-helpful book with joy and diligence, and read it diligently, for it is very useful to bishops and priests, rulers and judges, and especially to monks: silent and dormitory, novice, middle-aged and perfect, especially the weak, who are in various temptations and sufferings, and who therefore have need of spiritual consolation," with these words the book is put into the hands of the reader by its first publisher, the Venerable Nicodemus the Svyatorets. And truly anyone who listens to his advice finds great God-bearing men to be his interlocutors. St. Barsonophios lived in the VI century, and for fifty years and more no man, except the hegumen, saw this ascetic, for he confined himself in a small cell, as in a tomb, without eating other food than bread and water. Another elder, the Monk John, lived the same silent life and was granted the same gifts of the Spirit, especially the gift of clairvoyance, for which reason he was called the Prophet. This edition was prepared according to: The Venerable Fathers Barsanuphius the Great and John's Guide to Spiritual Life, in Answers to the Questions of the Disciples.
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