The Book of the Elders - Sayings of the Desert Fathers feature_Hermitage Original praying formal prayers

praying formal prayers

It is the first ever full-length (Old and New Testaments) Orthodox Study Bible in English

and Romania

in his youth he was a novice monk at the Glinsk Hermitage in Ukraine

from the Old Testament era up to our own day

The Book of the Elders - Sayings of the Desert Fathers feature_Hermitage Original praying formal prayersTranslated by John Wortley; Foreword by Bernard Flusin In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to "renounce the world" first had to find an "elder," a person who would accept him as a disciple and apprentice. To his elder (whom he would address as abbafather) the