About the Orthodox Church

Resources for those who want to learn more about the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church:

I.  General information, theology, and history of the Orthodox Church

http://www.holy-transfiguration.org/library_en/ct.html

http://orthodoxinfo.com/

http://oodegr.com/english/index.htm

http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english/dogmatics_pomazansky.htm

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Alexei_Stepanovich_Khomiakov#Writings

https://www.fatheralexander.org//booklets/english/pocket_church_history.htm

II.  Basics of Orthodox Spirituality

Prayers

https://www.fatheralexander.org//booklets/english/prayers.htm

The Holy Scriptures

https://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/bible1_e.htm

The Philokalia

https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Philokalia.pdf

Avoiding spiritual delusion

http://oprelesti.ru/index.php/about

Akathist hymns

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/akathists.htm

The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

http://www.stgeorgenj.com/the-divine-liturgy-of-st-john-chrysostom.html

III.  The Ascetic Ideal at the Heart of the Orthodox Church

http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english/fathers_florovsky_4.htm

Three Main Centers of Orthodox Asceticism and Some of Their Fruits:

A. The Egyptian Desert – The Conferences of St John Cassian with the Desert Fathers

https://ccel.org/ccel/cassian/conferences/conferences.i.html

B. Mount Athos (Greece) – The refinement of the practice and theology of hesychastic prayer.  Two recent Athonite Saints, St Joseph the Hesychast and St Paisios the New

http://www.chotki.com/Mount-Athos/#gsc.tab=0

https://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/about-monastery/our-monastery/saint-joseph.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe4OtnPJGpo

https://www.fatheralexander.org//booklets/english/elder_paisios_mount_athos.htm

C. Optina Monastery (Russia) – The Elders of Optina (Sts Ambrose, Barsanuphius, and others)

https://www.fatheralexander.org//booklets/english/optina_e.htm

https://www.fatheralexander.org//booklets/english/ambrose_e.htm

IV.  The Goal of the Orthodox Faith:  Sainthood/The Deification of Man

A Selection of Orthodox Saints through the Centuries

https://www.fatheralexander.org//booklets/english/saints_different_e.htm

Services to Various Saints

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/zliturgics.htm

A Few 19^th and 20^th Century Orthodox Saints and Sundry Teachings They Gave Us:

St Seraphim of Sarov

https://www.fatheralexander.org//booklets/english/seraphim_e.htm

St Silouan of Mt Athos

https://www.fatheralexander.org//booklets/english/siluan_e.htm

St John of Kronstadt

http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english/john_kronstadt_k_zaitzev.htm

St John Maximovitch

https://www.fatheralexander.org//booklets/english/johnmx1.htm

http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english/sermons_john_maximovich.htm

St Nikolai Velimirovich and St Justin Popovich

http://www.sv-luka.org/library/index.htm

V.  Preserving the True Faith

Keeping in Step with the Orthodox Church Fathers

https://www.fatheralexander.org//booklets/english/following_fathers_florovsky_e.htm

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