On Prayer: Reflections of a Modern Saint (2nd Edition) - St Sophrony - Lives of Saints - Spiritual Instruction - Book

Author: St Sophrony Translator: Rosemary Edmonds Published:2020 Pages: 212 Size: 5.5 x 8.5  Paperback + This collection of articles on prayer and the spiritual life, together with some of the author's own prayers, is a moving testimony to the relevance of Christ, who, for St Sophrony, is "all, and in all, the beginning and the ending" of all things (cf. Col 3.11; Rev 1.8). St Sophrony was born in Russia on September 22, 1896. He trained as an artist at the Moscow School of Fine Arts. After the October Revolution he settled in France, where he continued to work as an artist and exhibited in the Paris salons. For a brief period he read theology at the St Sergius Institute but in the autumn of 1925 left to become a monk at the Monastery of St Panteleimon on Mount Athos in northern Greece. In 1930 he was ordained deacon by St Nikolai Velimirovich. About this time he met St Silouan, who became his spiritual guide. After the staretz' death in 1938, St Sophrony spent seven years living as