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Latter-day Fathers

Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain

Gerontissa Gabrielia

Elder Germanos of Stavrovouni

Stories from the Desert Fathers

On Good and Evil

On Lasciviousness

On Avarice

On Repetance

On Prayer

On Fasting

On Labour

On Confession

On Matrimony

On Holy Communion

Gerontikon of
Mt. Athos

Elder Joseph the Hesychast and the teaching of mental prayer which flowed
from his letters

Prayer of the heart for the Faithfull Living in the world

With the Fathers

On the Necessity of Constant Prayer for all Christians

Hermas: The Shepherd

First Vision

Second Vision

Third Vision

Fourth Vision

Fifth Vision

First Commandment

Second
Commandment

Third Commandment

Forth Commandment

Fifth Commandment

Sixth Commandment

Seventh
Commandment

Eighth Commandment

Ninth Commandment

Tenth Commandment

Eleventh
Commandment

Twelwth
Commandment

First Similitude

Second Similitude

Third Similitude

Forth Similitude

Fifth Similitude

Sixth Similitude

Seventh Similitude

Eighth Similitude

Ninth Similitude

Tenth Similitude

St. John Chrysostom - Homily on the passage <Father if it be possible...>

Symeon of
Thessaloniki -
All should pray in the
name of Jesus Christ

Basil of Caesarea - Letter 234 to Amphilochius

Basil of Caesarea - On the Holy Spirit 66-68

The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp

St. John Chrysostom Instructions to Catechumens

First Instruction (1)

First Instruction (2)

First Instruction (3)

First Instruction (4)

First Instruction (5)

Second Instruction (1)

Second Instruction (2)

Second Instruction (3)

Second Instruction (4)

Second Instruction (5)

St. John Chrysostom Three homilees concering the power
of demons

Introduction

Homily 1

Homily 2

Hermas

The Shepherd

 

 

FIRST BOOK: VISIONS

· FIRST VISION -- AGAINST FILTHY AND PROUD THOUGHTS, AND THE CARELESSNESS OF HERMAS IN CHASTISING HIS SONS.

· SECOND VISION -- AGAIN, OF HIS NEGLECT IN CHASTISING HIS TALKATIVE WIFE AND HIS LUSTFUL SONS, AND OF HIS CHARACTER.

· THIRD VISION -- CONCERNING THE BUILDING OF THE TRIUMPHANT CHURCH, AND THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF REPROBATE MEN.

· FOURTH VISION -- CONCERNING THE TRIAL AND TRIBULATION THAT ARE TO COME UPON MEN.

· FIFTH VISION -- CONCERNING THE COMMANDMENTS.

SECOND BOOK: COMMANDMENTS

· FIRST COMMANDMENT -- ON FAITH IN GOD.

· SECOND COMMANDMENT -- ON AVOIDING EVIL-SPEAKING, AND ON GIVING ALMS IN SIMPLICITY.

· THIRD COMMANDMENT -- ON AVOIDING FALSEHOOD, AND ON THE REPENTANCE OF HERMAS FOR HIS DISSIMULATION.

· FOURTH COMMANDMENT -- ON PUTTING ONE'S WIFE AWAY FOR ADULTERY.

· FIFTH COMMANDMENT -- OF SADNESS OF HEART, AND OF PATIENCE.

· SIXTH COMMANDMENT -- HOW TO RECOGNISE THE TWO SPIRITS ATTENDANT ON EACH MAN, AND HOW TO DISTINGUISH THE SUGGESTIONS OF THE ONE FROM THOSE OF THE OTHER.

· SEVENTH COMMANDMENT -- ON FEARING GOD, AND NOT FEARING THE DEVIL.

· EIGHTH COMMANDMENT -- WE OUGHT TO SHUN THAT WHICH IS EVIL, AND DO THAT WHICH IS GOOD.

· NINTH COMMANDMENT -- PRAYER MUST BE MADE TO GOD WITHOUT CEASING AND WITH UNWAVERING CONFIDENCE.

· TENTH COMMANDMENT -- OF GRIEF, AND NOT GRIEVING THE SPIRIT OF GOD WHICH IS IN US.

· ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT -- THE SPIRIT AND PROPHETS TO BE TRIED BY THEIR WORKS; ALSO OF THE TWO KINDS OF SPIRIT.

· TWELFTH COMMANDMENT -- ON THE TWOFOLD DESIRE. THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD CAN BE KEPT, AND BELIEVERS OUGHT NOT TO FEAR THE DEVIL.

THIRD BOOK: SIMILITUDES

· FIRST SIMILITUDE -- AS IN THIS WORLD WE HAVE NO ABIDING CITY, WE OUGHT TO SEEK ONE TO COME.

· SECOND SIMILITUDE -- AS THE VINE IS SUPPORTED BY THE ELM, SO IS THE RICH MAN HELPER BY THE PRAYER OF THE POOR.

· THIRD SIMILITUDE -- AS IN WINTER GREEN TREES CANNOT BE DISTINGUISHED FROM WITHERED, SO IN THIS WORLD NEITHER CAN THE JUST FROM THE UNJUST.

· FOURTH SIMILITUDE -- AS IN SUMMER LIVING TREES ARE DISTINGUISHED FROM WITHERED BY FRUIT AND LIVING LEAVES, SO IN THE WORLD TO COME THE JUST DIFFER FROM THE UNJUST IN HAPPINESS.

· FIFTH SIMILITUDE -- OF TRUE FASTING AND ITS REWARD: ALSO OF PURITY OF BODY.

· SIXTH SIMILITUDE -- OF THE TWO CLASSES OF VOLUPTUOUS MEN, AND OF THEIR DEATH, FALLING AWAY, AND THE DURATION OF THEIR PUNISHMENT.

· SEVENTH SIMILITUDE -- THEY WHO REPENT MUST BRING FORTH FRUITS WORTHY OF REPENTANCE.

· EIGHTH SIMILITUDE -- THE SINS OF THE ELECT AND OF THE PENITENT ARE OF MANY KINDS, BUT ALL WILL BE REWARDED ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF THEIR REPENTANCE AND GOOD WORKS.

· NINTH SIMILITUDE -- THE GREAT MYSTERIES IN THE BUILDING OF THE MILITANT AND TRIUMPHANT CHURCH,

· TENTH SIMILITUDE -- CONCERNING REPENTANCE AND ALMS-GIVING.

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