A Collection of Letters to Nuns in 1960 became the abbotof

in 1960 became the abbotof Holy Trinity Monastery

Dositheos of Jerusalem

but also to his exile and death

What the Church Fathers say about Mercy and Charity

The arrangement of ecclesiastical chanting into tones was entirely the work of the famous hymnographer of the Byzantine Church

A Collection of Letters to Nuns in 1960 became the abbotofSt. Anatoly (Zertsalov) of Optina Like other such collections, although these letters are in fact addressed to nuns, their wisdom is for all of us. The nearly four hundred letters on a wide variety of subjects (readily located through a table of contents) are simple, direct and forceful. An ample life of St. Anatoly is appended. Paperbound