This narrative, compiled from accounts of Father Arseny’s spiritual children and others whom he brought to God, gives stirring glimpses of his life in prison camp and after his release. It also tells the stories of people whose lives, often during times of almost unimaginable crisis, were touched and transfigured through their connection with Father Arseny.
The most important thing that one acquires through reading such basic Orthodox literature as this [that will be described and referenced below] is a virtue called discernment.
Before his transition, Elder Ephraim writes of the death of his spiritual Father, Father Joseph: Finally. the time came for his departure. He had awaited death all his life.
Notes on the Prayer of the Heart This paper derived after my initial communications with a dear friend who had […]
Psychic phenomena bear heavily upon the question of man’s immortality. If telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, and clairaudience have any basis in facts, these facts indicate that the human mind may be capable of operation outside the spatial, temporal, and material limitations of the body.
There is a wisdom, a first principle, from which philosophy, theology, art, science obtain their truth. First Principle, Holy Wisdom.
The following are accounts of actual occurrences. There is evidence that they are not fiction, imagination, or fabrication.
Spiritual awakening and growth in God are possible in ordinary life. But they come only to men and women who deeply long for the truth, who find and follow the rules, and who do the necessary work.
This is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent
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