Please remember that we will be closed most of Holy Week because of the long services. So please get what you need for Pascha this week. It is possible to open by appointment during Holy Week or to catch one of the volunteers and get help. It would be better though to leave a message on our phone and wait for us to call you.
Another book about Elder Porphyrios. It is not as if there can be too many written about this remarkable contemporary elder. This book suffers a little from an ESL translation but rewards the patient reader, but offers many stories of witnessed by one of the elders spiritual children, stories of healing and counsel and wisdom.
Starting Friday November 6, St. Seraphim Bookstore will have evening hours on the first friday of the month.
On Friday November 6 we plan to be open from Noon till 8 pm.
Also, look for us on Thursday evenings till 8pm!
Pysanky supplies are now in, including the full range of dyes, templates, wax, findings, egg holders, kitsky and eggblowers, books, DVD. Every thing necessary for the Ukrainian tradition of egg decorating. As far as we know, we are the only pysanky suppliers in Indianapolis.
PYSANKY dyes are not edible.
We also have the edible red dyes from Greece for Pascha.
If you only read one book this year, then it should either be this one or Elder Sophrony’s We Shall See Him As He Is. Better make it two books this year. This book contains a brief life of Elder Porphyrios , one of the “3 Ps” of modern Greece. (The other two being Elder Paisios the New and Elder Philotheos Zervakos) It also contains transcriptions of some of his talks. We’ve seen 4 or 5 different books on this elder. Most of them are simply lives with unending accounts of miracles. Wonderful as that is in itself, it isn’t an entry point for someone new to Orthodoxy. The life here also tells of many miracles and episodes of clairvoyance. But the Elders words are also very helpful in bridging the gaps that many beginners may have in their understanding of Orthodox praxis and spiritual life. Overall, one begins to understand that the overwhelming motivation for all Orthodox ascesis is the Love of God.
“Your most intense effort should be how you will encounter Christ, how you will be united to Him, and how you will keep Him in your heart.”–Elder Porphyrios
This is the classic work on the Jesus Prayer in which St. Ignatius Brianchaninov explains the pertinent works by various Holy Fathers of the Philokalia for beginners. If you are using the Jesus Prayer you should read this book.
by Prof. Dr. Panteleimon Rodopoulos
This book is a pre’cis of the lessons on Canon Law taught to undergraduate students of the Theological school of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 1968. This edition is not a complete system of canon law, but as the title states, an overview.