Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart person_Syriac Fathers classic rose fragrance

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it contains morning and evening prayers

Printed in large type to facilitate use in church services

So great were his gifts that hundreds of people flocked daily to his humble cabin at Optina

and the name written in Russian plus the date of its discovery on the reverse

Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart person_Syriac Fathers classic rose fragranceThe Philokalia is an important collection of writings by Fathers of the Eastern Church dating from the fourth to the fourteenth century. It exists in three versions: the Greek, complied in the eighteenth century; the Slavonic; and the Russian. The Russian text, translated by St. Theophan the Recluse in the nineteenth century, is the most complete of all three versions, and is the source of this English translation, which presents selections that deal