We Shall See Him as He IsBy Saint Sophrony (Sakharov) of Essex Hardcover Now at the close of my life I have decided to talk to my brethren of things I would not have ventured to utter earlier, counting it unseemly. Thus wrote Archimandrite Sophrony, then ninety two years old, in We Shall See Him as He Is, his spiritual autobiography. This book is an exposition of the personal spiritual experience of Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov; 1896 1993) a renowned spiritual writer and

plus four others

worship and what it means to live by the teaching of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes

1845 -1863

Not one to simply learn from books she also spent significant time at a number of women’s monasteries throughout northern Greece

quiet bearer of the vision of the Optina monastic tradition—destined to preserve Optina eldership through decades of communist persecution of the Church

are among the many themes explored in this challenging and thought-provoking book

From ancient monasteries to humble homes

It also sets out clearly the Orthodox theology of the Theotokos and Orthodox Christology

Both the hardback and the paperback  edition are presented in a single

while emphasising that there are

knows what a holy life this great and wondrous elder led

Includes the life of St Anatoly