Fathers & Facets of Faith

On The Creed and the Trinity, set forth by the First Ecumenical Council of Nicea, 325 AD

From “The Life of Our Father Among the Saints, Barlaam”, Nov. 19:
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On The Holy Trinity

From “The Life of Our Father Among the Saints Gregory the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Neo-Caesarea”, Nov. 17:
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On the Ever Virginity of the Mother of God

From “A Narrative of the Nativity of Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ, Compiled from the Divine Gospel, the Holy Fathers, and Other Trustworthy Sources”, Dec 25:
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On the Holy Trinity; Icons; and the Cross, death, and Incarnation of Christ

From “The Life of Our Father Among the Saints, Gregory, Archbishop of Homer”, Dec. 19:
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On the divinity and humanity of Christ confessed in the Nicene Creed

From “The Life of Our Father Among the Saints, Maximus the Confessor”, Jan. 21:
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On the Revelation of the Triune God: A Universal Confession of the Orthodox Church

From “The Life of Our Fathers Among the Saints, Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria and Maximus the Confessor”

On the Saving Passion of Christ

From “The Life of Our Father Among the Saints, Holy Martyr Eustratius of Sebaste”, Dec. 13:
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A Saint’s Response Against Arius

From “The Life of Our Father Among the Saints, the Holy Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria”, Nov. 25:
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On the Fruit of Repentance

From “The Life and Passion of the Holy Monastic Martyr Eudocia”, Mar. 1:
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On Forfeiting the World and Acquiring God

From “Our Holy Mother Theodora of Alexandria, The Nun Who Struggled in the Guise of a Man”, Sep. 11:
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On the Incarnation of Christ; Saving Adam and Those with Him

From “The Passion of the Holy Martyr Paul, His Sister Juliana, and Those with Them, Mar. 4:
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On the Importance of Holy Icons, According to our Holy Fathers

From “The Life of Our Father Among the Saints, the Venerable Father Theophanes, Abbot of the Monastery of Megas Agros on Mount Sigriane”, Mar. 12:
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On the Essence of Philosophy

From “The Life of Our Father Among the Saints, Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappodocia”, Jan. 1:
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A Patristic Understanding of Genesis and the Doctrine of Evolution

From “Ascetical Homilies by St Isaac the Syrian and Genesis, Creation and Early Man, by Fr. Seraphim Rose

On the Wondrous, Marvelous Deeds of the Holy Apostles

From “From a Homily on the Holy Apostle Andrew, by Our Father Among the Saints, St John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople”, Nov. 30:
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On the Deliverance from Mortality; Receiving a New Birth in Christ’s Nativity

From “Homily on the Nativity of Christ”, Dec. 25:
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On Becoming Born Again, The True Path of Salvation

From “The Life of Our Father Among the Saints, the Holy Great-Martyr Estathius Placidas”, Sept. 20:
The Great Collection of The Lives of the Saints

This offering of the famous Russian collection of Lives of the Saints by Saint Demetrius of Rostov (1651-1709) marks the first time any of these national collections have been published in their entirety in the English language.