- Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Pray (Paulist Press).
- Archim. Ioannikios Kotsonis, Watchfulness and Prayer - Themes for the Philokalia (Holy Monastery of St Gregory Palamas)
- Nicholas Cabasilas, Life in Christ (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press).
How union with Christ through prayer and the sacramental life of the Church transforms and deifies man.
- Tito Colliander, Way of the Ascetics (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press).
A spiritual classic, applicable to the lives of ordinary Christians.
- Alexander Elchaninov, Diary of a Russian Priest (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press).
Themes of universal concern for those trying to live a Christian life today.
- R. M. French, trans., The Way of a Pilgrim (New Sarov Press).
A Russian classic about a spiritual pilgrim who seeks the wisdom of the Fathers on prayer of the heart.
- Jim Forest, Confession: Doorway to Forgiveness (Orbis Books).
A moving and enlightening appraisal of the rite of confession that draws on Scripture, the lives of the saints, and personal reflections.
- St. Innocent, Indication of the Way into the Kingdom of Heaven (Holy Trinity Monastery).
This concise explanation of the spiritual life was originally written for the native Aleuts by their great apostle, St. Innocent of Alaska.
- St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ (Holy Trinity Monastery).
Reflections of one of the great saints of modern times.
- A Monk of the Eastern Church, Orthodox Spirituality (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press).
A guide to the Orthodox ascetical and mystical tradition.
- Mother Raphaela, Living in Christ (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press).
A contemporary American abbess depicts both the abundant life available in Christ and the labor and sacrifice necessary to obtain it.
- Alexander Schmemann, Celebration of Faith (3 volumes): I Believe . . .; The Church Year; The Virgin Mary (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press).
An eminent twentieth-century theologian discusses the Nicene Creed, the Church year, and the Theotokos.
- Scupoli, Lorenzo, Unseen Warfare (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press).
A classic describing in detail how to engage in spiritual warfare.
- St. Theophan the Recluse, The Path to Salvation (St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood).
A classic textbook of spiritual life, presenting an infallible system for taking the Kingdom by force in a Christian life of grace and repentance.
- St. Tikhon of Zadonsk, Journey to Heaven: Counsels on the Particular Duties of Every Christian (Holy Trinity Monastery).
An eminently practical guide to the Christian life.
- St. Nikolai Velimirovich, Prayers by the Lake.
Fr. Justin Popovich said of this book,
"I read and reread Prayers by the Lake, but all their sweet allurement swims into my soul only when I read and reread them prayerfully. . . . In truth, he is the channel by which Eternity comes forth into my soul and by which my soul enters into eternity. He strengthens my feeling of personal immortality along with personal eternity, and I feel like a stranger in the world, but like a master of a mansion in Eternity."
- Archimandrite Hierotheos Vlachos, A Night in the Desert of the
Holy Mountain: Discussion with a hermit on the Jesus Prayer (Birth
of the Theotokos Monastery).
The Jesus Prayer is a vibrant element of Orthodox spirituality that
has been practiced by monastics for centuries, and is increasingly
used by lay people as well.
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