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Thoughts on various objects of faith Self-examination and knowledge of sinfulness To those troubled by unclean thoughts Ages of sin Remembrance of the Last Judgment (Contemplation) The main feeling of our heart is sadness (From “Letters on the Christian Life”) Presentation of the saving faith of Christ in brief statements Thoughts on the inner life Notes on spiritual life Thoughts on a godly life Testing the Scriptures Thoughts on various objects of faith From Sacred History Subordinate religion, as it was given by God through Moses to the people of Israel 1. The covenant of God with the Jewish people 2. Religious concepts corresponding to the covenant 3. Religious feelings 4. Moral dispositions, or practical feelings 5. Ritualism as a means of education and strengthening of moral dispositions 6. Practical rules, as a field for exercising the superiority of moral dispositions 7. Civil regulations and, in general, the entire structure of society in relation to religion under the law 8. How the people got used to the new order and how they strengthened themselves in walking along it 9. Why did religion and the church appear now in this form? 10. What kind of subordinate religion should form the spirit of the people? How the matter of the death of the Lord Savior arose and matured among His enemies from the time He revealed Himself to the world, and how the Lord Himself treated this. The Lord's Passage to Olivet Sermons on the day of the Holy Great Martyr Barbara An easy means for mastering the holy Christian life (Teaching on the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost) What is “anathema”? Homily for the Week of Orthodoxy About sudden death (The Homily was written in connection with the death of Russian sailors on the ship "Rusalka", which was wrecked in the Baltic Sea in peacetime) About the rich man and Lazarus (Conversation on the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost) Homily on the day of the descent of the Holy Spirit Intercession and protection of the Most Holy Theotokos From translations from Greek The Teaching of the Holy Fathers about the tripartite, or three powers, the soul (Extracts from the “Philokalia”) Reading or listening to soul-helping books is necessary for salvation (Excerpt from the preface of the begun translation of an unknown Greek book) Preface to the letter of Antiochus, monk of the Lavra of St. Sava, to Eustathius, Abbot of the Attala Monastery of the city of Ancyra in Galatia Word of the monk Antiochus about faith Word of the monk Antiochus about eating food Monk Antiochus on gluttony The word of the monk Antiochus on drunkenness The word of the monk Antiochus on abstinence About the eight main passions of Our Holy Father John of Damascus A soul-helping word about the virtues and passions of the soul and body From the life of Saint Andrew, Christ for the Fool's sake (compiled by Nicephorus, a priest of the Sophia Church of Constantinople, an eyewitness) Thoughts and sayings holy ascetics from various paterical collections of the monastery of St. Sava the Sanctified. Spiritual thoughts that take a person away from the corruptible and stick to the incorruptible. Something about life and death. Patericon (Translation of the handwritten Greek Patericon from the monastery of St. Sava the Sanctified). Preface about the life and asceticism of the blessed holy fathers. Instructions of the holy fathers on how to achieve perfection in Christian life. Letters “The Ravings of a White Fever” and about spiritualists (Letters to N. N.) Resolution of doubts and exhortation to hold the holy faith without objection (Letters to N.N.) Instruction of St. Theophan to a layman about the prayer rule (Handwritten note, written to an unknown person) About priestly service (Letter to a student of the Moscow Theological Academy D.I.R.) Admonition to those who are mistaken in the faith (Letters to an unknown Master) The main difference between the revelation of thoughts to the elder and confession before the confessor You might be interested in: