The Emporium Easter Supplement ~ 2014 St George Orthodox Information Service
CONTENTS Easter Cards ~ 1 New Books ~ 2 - 6 College Chotki ~ 6 Music ~ 7 - 9 Books for Children ~ 10 Lenten Reading~ 11 - 12 Order Form ~ 13
EDITORIAL NOTE As an addition to our full Annual Catalogue, we are pleased to present this short Easter Supplement, featuring some of our latest items as well as some specially chosen for this holy season. We will have more products, reviews and features for next year’s Emporium but until then the whole team at St George Orthodox Information Service wishes its readers a blessed celebration of the Bright Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. CHRIST IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN INDEED!
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The Resurrection – Descent into Hades St Seraphim Ikon Studio Ikon card with envelope 20 pence each
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What’s New? 2014 Directory of Orthodox Parishes & Clergy Fellowship of St John the Baptist: |Paperback | 64pp |£4
Compiled each year by The Orthodox Fellowship of Saint John the Baptist, the Directory is the indispensible guide to all the contact details, service times and locations of all the canonically Orthodox parishes and communities in the British Isles.
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Meditations for Great Lent: Reflections on the Triodion Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou| Paperback | 89 pp | £6.95
The Lenten Triodion exhorts us, “Let us observe a fast acceptable and pleasing to the Lord.” Using hymns from the Triodion and the Scripture readings appointed for the season, Meditations for Great Lent shows us how to make our fast acceptable: to fast not only from food but from sin; to fast with love and humility, as a means to an end and not an end in itself. Keep this gem of a book with you to inspire you for the Fast and to dip into for encouragement as you pursue your Lenten journey.
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Meditations for Holy Week: Dying and Rising with Christ Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou| Paperback | 89 pp | ÂŁ6.95
Archimandrite Vassilios brings his liturgical and devotional insights and warm, accessible style to bear on the services of Holy Week, helping the reader enter fully into this most rich and intense period of the Christian year.
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Thirty Steps to Heaven: The Ladder of Divine Ascent for all Walks of Life Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou| Paperback | 256pp | ÂŁ13.99
Many laypeople have attempted to read the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, but have been frustrated in attempting to apply the lessons of this monastic text to their everyday lives in the world. In Thirty Steps, Archimandrite Vassilios interprets the Ladder for the ordinary Christian without sacrificing any of its beauty and power. Now you too can accept the challenge offered by St. John Climacus to ascend closer to God with each passing day.
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Great Lent: Journey to Pascha Father Alexander Schmemann | Paperback | 140 pp | ÂŁ10 Schmemann draws on the Church's sacramental and liturgical tradition to suggest the meaning of Lent in our lives. The Lenten season is meant to kindle a 'bright sadness' within our hearts. Its aim is precisely the remembrance of Christ, a longing for a relationship with God that has been lost. Lent offers the time and place for recovery of this relationship. The darkness of Lent allows the flame of the Holy Spirit to burn within our hearts until we are led to the brilliance of the Resurrection.
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We were banished once, O Lord, from Paradise through eating from the tree; but Thou hast led us back again, O my God and Saviour, through Thy Cross and Passion. At the intercession of Thy Mother, give us strength through this Thy Cross to keep the Fast in holiness and to worship Thy divine awakening, the Passover of salvation. Exapostilarion Matins, Forgiveness Sunday
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Wounded by Love: The Life & The Wisdom of Elder Porphyrios Paperback | 253pp | ÂŁ12.50 Elder Porphyrios, a Greek monk and priest who died in 1991, stands in the long tradition of charismatic spiritual guides in the Eastern Church which continues from the apostolic age down to figures such as Saint Seraphim of Sarov and Staretz Silouan in modern times. In this book he tells the story of his life and, in simple, deeply reflected and profoundly wise words, he expounds the Christian Faith today.
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Church, Papacy and Schism: A Theological Enquiry Philip Sherrard | Paperback | 116 pp | ÂŁ6.50
The union of the churches is one of the crucial issues of our time. Yet it is often forgotten that any discussion about it must begin with an understanding of what the Church itself is. Church, Papacy and Schism contains the following chapters: The Church - The Episcopate - The Conciliar Structure - Two Rival Ecclesiologies - The Papacy - Perspectives and Formulas of Schism The Christology of Schism - Trinitarian Doctrine and the Schism.
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The Greek East and The Latin West: A Study in the Christian Tradition Philip Sherrard |Paperback | 214 pp | £10.50 The division of Christendom into the Greek East and the Latin West has its origins far back in history but its consequences still affect Europe, and thus Western Civilization. Sherrard's study seeks to indicate both the fundamental character and some of the consequences of this division. He points especially to the underlying metaphysical bases of Greek Christian thought, and contrasts them with those of the Latin West.
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College Chotki Prayer Ropes (chotki) are made to order at the College of Our Lady of Mettingham 33 knot ~ £4.50 50 knot ~ £6.95 100 knot ~ 13.95
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Music The Bright Resurrection of Christ: Paschal Matins Strensky Monastery Choir, Moscow | £10
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1. Paschal Bells and the stichera verses 2. Beginning of Pascha 3. Great Litany 4. Paschal Canon 5. Hypakoe 6. Canon 7. Kontakion 8. Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ 9. Canon 10. Exapostilarion 11. Paschal Stichera 12. Homily of St John Chrysostom 13. Augmented Litany 14. End of Matins 15. Christ is Risen in Greek, Latin and Slavonic 16. Having Beheld the Resurrection, of Christ 17. Hypakoe, Kontakion, Troparia 18. Christ is Risen
Chants of Great Lent and Holy Easter St Peter & Paul Choir of Minsk|£7 1. The Great Litany 2. Open to me the Gates of Repentance 3. By the Rivers of Babylon 4. Stichera from Triodion, Cheesefare Week 5. Irmoi of the Great Canon 6. All Holy Lady Theotokos 7. O Lord of Strength be with us! 8. The Lenten Litany 9. In Thy Kingdom 10. Let my Prayer Arise 11. Now the Powers of Heaven. 12. Taste and See. 13. Today He is hung on the Tree 14. Pour out my prayer to the Lord. 15. Kontakion from the Great Canon. 16. Before Thy Cross 17. Thy Resurrection O Christ Our Saviour 18. Christ is Risen. 19. After Thou didst fall asleep. 20. The Angel Exclaimed 21. Christ is Risen 22. Christ is Risen
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Pilgrim’s Songs: Shining Bright St Peter & Paul Choir of Minsk|£7
1. Praise to the Lord for Everything 2. Assuage My Sorrow 3. Holy Land 4. Hymn to St Nicholas 5. Blessed Xenia 6. Our Father Seraphim 7. Father Sergei 8. The Worldly Sea 9. In the Garden at Night 10. A Song of Prayer 11. Adam’s Lament 12. When the Sun went down 13. A Reverend’s Path 14. Where is that Beautiful Flower? 15. A monk 16. The Night is Quiet
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The Eucharist: Chants of the Divine Liturgy Sisters of the St Elisabeth Convent, Minsk|£10 1. Great Litany 2. Antiphon 1 3. Antiphon 2 4. Only Begotten Son 5. Beatitudes 6. O Come let us Worship 7. Troparia & Kontakia 8. Trisagion 9. Prokeimenon 10. Alleluia 11. Litany of the Departed 12. Cherubic Hymn 13. Augmented Litany 14. Anaphora 15. It is Truly Meet 16. One is Holy 17. We have seen the True Light 18. Let our mouths be filled with Thy Praise 19. Many Years 20. Antiphons 1 & 2
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Chants of the All-Night Vigil & Divine Liturgy St Peter & Paul Cathedral Choir, Minsk|£7 1. Psalm 103 2. Blessed is the Man 3. O Gladsome Light 4. Lord, now lettest thou … 5. Hail, O Virgin Mother of God 6. Small Doxology 7. Praise ye the Name of the Lord 8. Angelic Host 9. From my youth 10. Glory … now … through the prayers of the Apostles 11. O Victorious Leader 12. The Great Litany 13. First and Second Antiphons 14. Only-Begotten Son 15. Beatitudes 16. Trisagion 17. Augmented Litany 18. Little Litany 19. Cherubic Hymn 20. A Mercy of Peace 21. Litany of Supplication 22. Our Father
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LENTEN LISTENING … SGOIS Catalogue Lectures of Fr Seraphim Rose: Living the Orthodox World View St Herman Press | £7.50
Digitally remastered edition of a talk which Fr Seraphim gave on Sunday 8 August, 1982 during the St Herman’s Summer Pilgrimage at St Herman’s Monastery in Platina, California. The CD includes a lengthy question and answer session following the talk on a variety of subjects relating to living the Orthodox world view in the modern world.
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Books for children MY BOOK OF GREAT LENT Ikon Colouring Book Paperback, 24pp + poster & stickers £4.85
MY BOOK OF HOLY WEEK Ikon Colouring Book Paperback, 24pp + poster & stickers £4.85
MY PENTECOSTARION Ikon Colouring Book Paperback, 16pp £4.85
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Lenten Reading from SGOIS THE GREAT COLLECTION OF THE LIVES BLESSED THEOPHYLACT’S OF THE SAINTS EXPLANATIONS OF THE by St Demetrius of Rostov HOLY GOSPELS translated by Hardback Fr Christopher Stade £25.00 per volume STSEPTEMBER MATTHEW -- 500pp 259pp OCTOBER 470pp ST MARK –-144pp NOVEMBER - 686pp ST LUKE – 328pp DECEMBER - 616pp ST JOHN – 312pp JANUARY – 533pp FEBRUARY - 321pp Hardback - £20.00 MARCH- -£11.50 500pp Paperback APRIL – 375pp
THE OF THEOF EPISTLE OF THEEXPLANATION GREAT COLLECTION THE LIVES ST PAULOF TOTHE THESAINTS GALATIANS by Blessed Theophylact St Demetrius of Rostov Paperback, 86pp Hardback £10.50 £25.00 per volume JANUARY – 533pp THE EXPLANATION OF THE EPISTLE OF FEBRUARY - 321pp ST PAULMARCH TO THE-EPHESIANS 500pp by Blessed Theophylact APRIL – 375pp
THE BEGINNINGS OF A LIFE OF PRAYER by Archimandrite Irenei (Steenberg) Paperback, 122pp £8.50
THE EXPLANATION OF THE EPISTLE OF STBLESSED PAUL TOTHEOPHYLACT’S THE GALATIANS EXPLANATIONS OF THE by Blessed Theophylact HOLY GOSPELS Paperback, 86pp translated by £10.50 Fr Christopher Stade
THE BLESSED SURGEON: The Life of St Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol by Fr Dcn. Vasily Marushchak Paperback, 191pp £12.50
ST MATTHEW - 259pp THE EXPLANATION OF THE EPISTLE OF STTO MARK 144pp ST PAUL THE –EPHESIANS ST LUKE – 328pp by Blessed Theophylact ST JOHN –105pp 312pp Paperback,
CONTEMPORARY ASCETICS OF MOUNT ATHOS By Archimandrite Cherubim Vol. 1 Paperback, 363pp £10.95 Vol. 2 Paperback, 358pp £10.95
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EVERYDAY SAINTS & OTHER STORIES by Arch. Tikhon (Shevkunov) Paperback, illustrated, 504pp £16.50
Vol 4: Elder Ambrose by Fr Sergius Chetverikov Paperback, 469pp £9.95 Vol 5: Elder Nektary by I.M. Kontzevitch Paperback, 515pp £12.95 Vol 7: Elder Barsanuphius by Victor Afanasiev Paperback, 833pp £14.95
HARLOTS OF THE DESERT: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources by Benedicta Ward SLG Paperback, 113pp £10.00 JOURNEY TO THE KINGDOM: An Insider's Look at the Liturgy and Beliefs of the Eastern Orthodox Church by Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou Paperback, 196pp £12.00
SAINT HERMAN OF ALASKA: His Life and Service St Herman Press Paperback, 48pp £7.00
ON THE PRAYER OF JESUS by Ignatius Brianchaninov Paperback, 167pp £11.99
SHEPHERD OF SOULS: The Life and Teaching of Elder Cleopa by Archimandrite Ioanichie Balan Paperback, 230pp £8.00
ON TOUR IN BYZANTIUM: Excerpts from The Spiritual Meadow of John Moschus Paperback, 79pp £7.00
THE SPIRITUAL MEADOW by John Moschos Paperback, 287pp £14.99
OUR THOUGHTS DETERMINE OUR LIVES: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vtitovnica Paperback, 212pp £11.50
ST NIKOLAI KASATKIN AND THE ORTHODOX MISSION IN JAPAN Divine Ascent Press Paperback, 203pp £12.50
OPTINA ELDERS SERIES: Vol 1: Elder Leonid by Fr Clement Sederholm Paperback, 269pp £8.00 Vol 2: Elder Anthony by Fr Clement Sederholm Paperback, 269pp £8.50 Vol 3: Elder Macarius by Fr Leonid Kavelin Paperback, 386pp £8.50
THOUGHTS FOR EACH DAY OF THE YEAR by St Theophan the Recluse Paperback, 307pp £13.00 WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS by Archimandrite Sophrony Paperback, 237pp £10.00
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