A Girl's Journey to Sainthood: Venerable Ascetic Dosithea of KievSome people know from an early age that they want to live solely for Christ. As a young girl from a noble Russian family, Dareia Tiapkin developed a deep love for monastic life and spiritual struggle while living in a monastery alongside her grandmother, the nun Porphyria. A crisis developed, however, when Dareias parents arranged for her to marry. Now a teenager of fifteen, Dareia made the fateful decision to flee her family. Not wanting to be caught

from her Conception until her glorious Dormition and her translation to heaven

Blind Obedience - An Iris represents the Annunciation

these counsels resemble the sayings of the ancient Desert Fathers

Join Constantina Palmer as she makes frequent pilgrimages to a women's monastery in Greece and absorbs the nuns' particular approach to their spiritual life

This newer edition of St

and His righteousness

Orthodox Monasticism then looks at monasticism on two holy mountains – Mount Athos and Mount Sinai – mostly through talks and analyses of books

Translators:Tim Vivian & Augustine Casiday

Includes Canons

This listing is for one Saint Mary Magdalene religious pendant necklace

even some within the Orthodox Church itself

Ascension and Pentecost