We Shall See Him as He Is by Archimandrite Sophrony Sakharov - 5 Books - Book Study - Lives of Saints

Elder Sophrony was officially canonized by decision of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople on November 27  2019.  Saint Sophrony pray to God for us! "Now at the close of my life I have decided to talk to my brethren of things I would not have ventured to utter earlier, counting it unseemly.…”Thus wrote Archimandrite Sophrony, then ninety-two years old, in We Shall See Him as He Is, his spiritual autobiography. In this book Fr. Sophrony, one of the most beloved Orthodox Christian elders of our times, revealed to the world his own experience of union with God, and the path to that union. drawing near to God with intense love and longing accompanied by struggle, self-emptying and searing repentance, Fr. Sophrony was granted to participate in the life of God Himself through His uncreated Energies. Like Orthodox saints throughout the centuries, he experienced God’s grace as an ineffable, uncreated Light. It was in this Light that Christ was transfigured on Mount Tabor befor