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Although best known in the West for his dogmatic work

These memoirs by his spiritual children place us around the dining room table with that holy man

The First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journal through the Canon of St. Andrew Saint Demiana when the Arian controversy further"Sugg. Donation" Join Frederica Mathewes Green on a guided retreat through an ancient Orthodox text. Regardless of your denominational background, First Fruits of Prayer will bring to life the prayer experience of first millennium Christianity through immersion in this poetic hymn, an extraordinarily beautiful work that is still chanted by Christians around the world each Lent. It weaves together Old and New Testament Scriptures with prayers of hope