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Spirituality

Spirituality in the Orthodox Church means the everyday activity of life in communion with God. The term spirituality refers not merely to the activity of man’s spirit alone, his mind, heart and soul, but it refers as well to the whole of man’s life as inspired and guided by the Spirit of God. Every act of a Christian must be a spiritual act. Every thought must be spiritual, every word, every deed, every activity of the body, every action of the person. This means that all that a person thinks, says and does must be inspired and guided by the Holy Spirit so that the will of God the Father might be accomplished as revealed and taught by Jesus Christ the Son of God.

… whatever you do, do all to the glory of God (1 Cor 10:31).

Doing all things to the glory of God is the meaning and substance of life for a human being. This “doing” is what Christian spirituality is about.

Volume 4: Spirituality – Selected Bibliography

Arseniev, Nicholas, Revelation of Life Eternal, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, Tuckahoe, N.Y., 1962.

Bloom, Archbishop Anthony, Beginning to Pray, Paulist Press, New York, 1970.

Meditations – A Spiritual Journey Through the Parables, Dimension Books, Denville, N.J., 1971.

Living Prayer, Libra Books, London, 1966.

God and Man, Darton, Longman and Todd, London, 1970.

Cabasilas, Nicholas, The Life in Christ, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, Tuckahoe, N.Y., 1974

Chariton, Igumen of Valaam, The Art of Prayer – An Orthodox Anthology, Faber and Faber, Ltd., London, 1966.

Elchaninov, Alexander, The Diary of a Russian Priest, Faber and Faber, Ltd., London, 1967.

John (Sergieff) of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ, Jordanville, N.Y., n.d.

Fedotov, George, A Treasury of Russian Spirituality, Harper Torchbook, New York, 1964.

Kadloubovsky and Palmer, Trans., Early Fathers from the Philokalia, Faber and Faber, Ltd., London, 1954.

Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart, Faber and Faber, Ltd., London, 1951.

Macarius of Optina, Russian Letters of Direction, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, Tuckahoe, N.Y., 1975.

Meyendorff, John, St. Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, Tuckahoe, N.Y., 1973.

Schmemann, Alexander, For the Life of the World, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, Tuckahoe, N.Y. 1973.

Liturgy and Life, Department of Religious Education, Orthodox Church in America, New York, 1974.

Sophrony, Archmandrite, Wisdom from Mount Athos -The Writings of Father Silouan, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, Tuckahoe, N.Y., 1974.