The Festive Fast: Greek Meatless Cooking in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition

The Festive Fast: Greek Meatless Cooking in the Eastern Orthodox TraditionTranslated from the Greek text (intelligently and intelligibly!), graced by numerous photographs, attractively and legibly printed the recipes are far from exotic, do not require all manner of ingredients to be found only in the luxury delis of big cities, and provide a most welcome source of inspiration for Lenten meals on those occasions when something a bit special is called for. Delicious and perhaps healthier than many meals other times as well!

What the Church Fathers say about Anger

This translation of the Historia Monachorum by Norman Russell is the first available in English

tempted by the current vogue of so-called "harmless" magic

Drawing on the imagery and symbolism basic to all human experience

It weaves together meditations on scripture (from the Psalms in particular) and amplifies these with the wisdom of early Christian saints

and the companion commentaries on the Epistles of St

and provide a most welcome source of inspiration for Lenten meals on those occasions when something a bit special is called for

This volume draws widely from his writings to address a world full of aggression and rage with a personal

Timothy Clader

One need only say in addition: Here is the path—start walking

the reader is led by the hand through the Divine Liturgy

Emperor Diocletian (a