Being Good: Responding to Our Faith (Notes from a Poor Monk)
By Archimandrite Laurence Mancuso

Publication of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston
ISBN: 978-1-933275-19-2
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This book, Abba Laurence's last, was composed during the period May 2003 to September 2005 as a series of small lessons about the interior life on a daily or weekly basis and sent via e-mail to a select group of friends. The reflections received enthusiastic responses from e-mail recipients who in turn forwarded them to others.

Appended to this collection of reflections is a large, but incomplete, series of discussions concerning prayer beginning with chapter 149; Abba Laurence indicated in both series (Being Good and Chapters on Prayer) that they were interrelated and interdependent. The style of writing is down to earth, colloquial and full of analogies, metaphor and simile and has been left intact. The heart of his reflections is the result of a half century of monastic living, spiritual counseling and study.

Though Abba Laurence was a scholar versed in the biblical languages of Hebrew and Greek as well as several modern languages, theology, liturgy, Scripture and the writings of the Church Fathers, his approach is conversational and direct. Anyone ever attending any of his workshops or retreats will be familiar with his down-home approach in the vernacular.

The Titles of Christ
By Matthew the Poor

Orthodox Research Institute
ISBN: 978-1-933275-21-5
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Father Matthew the Poor (Fr. Matta El-Meskeen), the well known Coptic Orthodox Abbot of the St. Macarius Monastery from the deserts of Egypt, has fallen asleep in the Lord; however, he has left behind a great legacy. He labored to preserve so zealously the holy tradition of the Gospel as it was expounded by the early spiritual masters, like the Great Anthony, the professor of the desert, and the great ecumenical teachers, like St. Athanasius and St. Cyril.

This book expounds the rich meaning of the person of the Blessed Lord of all humanity, who has offered Himself for all and wants all to be one. Father Matta's book will help every reader to return to the Lord who created us and who invites us to a perfect salvation and eternal life.

The Power of the Name: The History and Practices of the Jesus Prayer
By Alphonse and Rachel Goettmann

Orthodox Research Institute
ISBN: 978-0-9745618-9-9
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The Jesus Prayer penetrates everything, freeing us from all the acculturations of the Gospel, re-creating the basis of unity for all Christians and offering them the only possible anchor for a true ecumenism. The Jesus Prayer heals the alienation and distress of humanity, placing its dependence on God alone, substituting the divine life for the little "self" and the interests it must defend.

"It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me" (Gal 2:20). Here the incarnation continues and completes itself. This book has grown out of lived experience and not out of theory. The Jesus Prayer has been the foundation of our lives for over forty years. But we have not taken a solitary path. This work is the fruit of twenty years of sharing with hundreds of people through retreats and sessions at Bethanie, a "place of rebirth" which we founded on the foundation of the Prayer. A community has been established there which seeks the dynamism of the first communities witnessed to in the Acts of the Apostles who "lived in the Name of Jesus."

The Jesus Prayer is a way of life, making us true disciples of Christ. It is a beacon for the people of God, leading them toward the promised land.

The Life of Saint Alexios the Man of God
Translated and Edited by Fr. Peter Chamberas

Publication of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta
ISBN: 978-1-933275-18-5
Price: $7.95 + Shipping

Perhaps the universal appeal which St. Alexios enjoys among Orthodox Christians can be attributed to his wonderful example of a truly ascetical and self-effacing spirituality. In our time, "modern man" is still pondering over the ancient question "What is man?" without having made up his mind. Neither the one-sided social dimension of man, nor the prevailing conventional religiosity can provide a true and authentic identity for the human person, created in the image and likeness of God.

It is for this very reason, that this humble icon of a man is offered to our devout readers: The Life of St. Alexios the Man of God. May those who labored, in the past or in the present, to produce this Life of the Saint, have his blessing. And may those who read this Life of the Saint be truly edified and inspired, as they begin or continue their own personal journey in the spiritual life which will lead them toward becoming authentic men and women of God.

Saint Jean Chrysostome et l'Homo oeconomicus
By Nicoleta Acatrinei

Orthodox Research Institute
ISBN: 978-1-933275-20-8
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Le voyage que propose Nicoleta Acatrinei, guidée en cela par son maître et inspirateur, saint Jean Chrysostome, va directement à l'essentiel puisqu'il touche au coeur de l'homme. C'est là en effet que l'homo oeconomicus cherche à se faire une place. Ni l'avarice ni la cupidité ne sont naturelles à l'homme, selon saint Jean Chrysostome. Toutefois elles envahissent l'âme dès que la volonté leur entrouvre la porte. Cela arrive aujourd'hui, comme cela arrivait à Antioche aux temps de sa grandeur. Selon le grand saint, c'est une des pires choses qui puisse arriver à l'homme. Une fois asservi à la matière, l'homme trahit sa nature et sa vocation ; il se métamorphose pour devenir intégralement « oeconomicus », sourd aux appels de la raison et aveugle à l'autre, capable ni de miséricorde ni de charité. C'est pour prévenir cette dégénérescence que saint Jean Chrysostome élève sa voix puissante et claire.

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