The Power of the Name: The History and Practices of the Jesus Prayer
By Alphonse and Rachel Goettmann
Translated by Theodore and Rebecca Nottingham

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Paperback (May 2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9745618-9-9
Price: $14.95 + S&H (USD)

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 Titles of Christ
By Matthew the Poor

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Paperback (May 2008)
ISBN: 978-1-933275-21-5
Price: $18.95 + S&H (USD)

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

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Paperback (April 2008)
ISBN: 978-1-933275-18-5
Price: $7.95 + S&H (USD)

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.

The Spiritual Wisdom and Practices of Early Christianity
By Alphonse and Rachel Goettmann
Translated by Theodore J. Nottingham

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Paperback (September 2006)
ISBN: 1-933275-09-X
Price: $13.95 + S&H (USD)

In this book, we will consider the fundamental practices of the Christian experience. They are backed by two thousand years of history and a sea of witnesses who, down through the ages, have journeyed on this path that has led them to the summits of wisdom and holiness. The difficulty in the presentation of these "methods" is their inevitable and artificial juxtaposition when they only find their internal and organic coherence in the living Tradition. They are all held together as in a living organism; each element comes at a particular stage in a life that gravitates around its axis: the Christ. That is why we will use a method which will make it possible for the reader not to remain on the exterior as a spectator: the repetition of key ideas. This is a teaching in the form of a spiral, an "eating of the word" where, as in liturgical chants and the experiential method of Scripture, we become that which we "eat" continually, we "are" what we have just read rather than merely "knowing" it. Each chapter is a new approach to the unique Reality. Rather than addressing the intellect, it speaks to the heart.

The Lord's Prayer according to Saint Makarios of Corinth
(in English and Modern Greek)
By Protopresbyter George Dion. Dragas

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Paperback (June 2005)
ISBN: 1-933275-01-4
Price: $10.95 + S&H (USD)

The Lord's Prayer, commonly known as the "Our Father," is the supreme prayer of the Christians, since it was delivered to us by the Lord Jesus Christ, following a request of his holy Disciples and Apostles. The Fathers of the Church have delivered many and profound explanations of this prayer, which constitutes the pinnacle of the introductory "trisagion" which opens every Orthodox supplication. The present explanation of this prayer by St. Makarios of Corinth (1731-1805) is the spiritual distillation of his study of the patristic explanations. It helps us to understand how this prayer is the key to our manner of life in Christ.

Review by Jean-Claud Larchet

Ecclesiasticus II: Orthodox Icons, Saints, Feasts and Prayer
By Protopresbyter George Dion. Dragas
(with a Preface by Metropolitan Methodios of Boston)

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Paperback (May 2005)
ISBN: 0-9745618-0-0
Price: $17.95 + S&H (USD)

Ecclesiasticus II: Orthodox Icons, Saints, Feasts and Prayer brings together essays, which were delivered on various occasions and are arranged into four general topics-hence the subtitle. The first section on Icons offers an introductory lecture on the iconoclastic dispute with a select (updated) bibliography and a fresh exposition, on the basis of the original text of St. John of Damascus' Defense of the Icons. The second section on Saints represents an introduction to Orthodox Hagiography, which was prepared for the Orthodox-Reformed Dialogue, and offers an extensive bibliography on the subject. The third section on Feasts is a general presentation of the major movable and immovable feasts of the Orthodox liturgical years and dovetails with the section on the Saints. Finally, the fourth section on Prayer offers two expositions of the Lord's Prayer, one by St. Maximos the Confessor and another by St. Macarios of Corinth, which are representative of the patristic understanding of this Prayer that constitutes the basis of Orthodox spirituality.