The Harvest - Spiritual Nourishment for the Church Year feature_Icon/Akathist Pairs The Priest John Veniaminov was

The Priest John Veniaminov was a Russian born and raised in Siberia

John Cassian has been honoured by the universal Church as one of the greatest of early monastic writers

by the brilliant and saintly Orthodox hierarch

Readers will find spiritual wisdom

he doesn't want anything to do with his father's missionary dreams

The Harvest - Spiritual Nourishment for the Church Year feature_Icon/Akathist Pairs The Priest John Veniaminov wasAttentive prayer can be compared to the beneficial rain that irrigates a sown field, gives nourishment to the plants and ensures a rich harvest. Gods rich blessings on the crown of the year can be experienced in their fullness throughout the annual cycle of Church services. This penultimate volume of the Collected Works of St Ignatius (Brianchaninov) contains fifty two sermons given on Sundays, during Great Lent and Paschatide, and other occasions,