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The works of Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov) (1807–1867) are the spiritual treasury of the Russian Orthodox Church, the favorite reading of pious people. For his great labors in God’s field of Christ, this famous ascetic and ascetic was rightly called Ignatius, the New God-Bearer.
The Pilgrim Publishing House has taken the responsible initiative to publish the Complete Works of St. Ignatius, in which for the first time the creative heritage of the great servant of the Church and gifted spiritual writer will be presented in full detail.
In the “Appendix” section, readers will for the first time become acquainted with new texts of the Saint’s works, with archival documents that significantly complement his biography, as well as with a large number of unpublished letters from the Right Reverend to various persons, very important and instructive. Valuable memoirs of contemporaries about Saint Ignatius will also be presented here, in which the image of this humble and active mentor of monastics and all Orthodox Christians is vividly presented.
Complete collection of creations. Volume I
Complete collection of creations. Volume II
Complete collection of creations. Volume III
Complete collection of creations. Volume IV
Complete collection of creations. Volume V
Complete collection of creations. Volume VI
Complete collection of creations. Volume VII
Complete collection of creations. Volume VIII
A. I. Osipov “Straight Angel Mind”
LIFE OF BISHOP IGNATIUS
ASCETICA EXPERIENCES (Part I)
On following our Lord Jesus Christ
On avoiding reading books containing false teaching
Speech to the brethren on communion with the Holy Mysteries of Christ
Day Apostle February 1, 1840
Addition to the study “Garden in Winter”
Tree in winter in front of the cell windows
Eight major passions with their divisions and industries
On the virtues opposite to the eight main sinful passions
Judge truth and peaceable judgment within your gates, and do not love lying oaths, says the Lord Almighty
The praying mind seeks connection with the heart
Proof of the resurrection of human bodies, borrowed from the action of mental prayer
A Word about the Fear of God and the Love of God
Teaching on the lamentation of St. Pimen the Great
Prayer of the Persecuted
A word of consolation to the grieving monks
Your Cross and the Cross of Christ
Preparatory conversation for the Sacrament of Confession
About a distracted and attentive life
Song under the canopy of the Cross (Borrowed from the 15th chapter of Exodus)
Reflection at sunset
Advice to those who are offended by their neighbors (Pharisee)
Visit to Valaam Monastery
About the Gospel beatitudes
On true and false humility
Memories of Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov
Ancestors, contemporaries, descendants
ASCETICA EXPERIENCES (Part II)
Preface to the story "Joseph"
Message to the brethren of the Sergius Hermitage from the Babaevsky Monastery
About the image and likeness of God in man
On the essential work of a monk
Spirit of Novice Prayer
A word on the cell prayer rule
A Word on Church Prayer
A Word on Oral and Public Prayer
A Word on Teaching, or the Memory of God
A word about mental, heartfelt and spiritual prayer
A Word about the Jesus Prayer
The rite of attention to oneself for those living in the middle of the world
The attitude of a Christian to his passions
Mysterious explanation of Psalm 99
A Word about Salvation and Christian Perfection
A word about the different states of human nature in relation to good and evil
A word on the sensory and spiritual vision of spirits
Author's preface to the first edition of “Ascetic Sermon”
Lesson 1 on the Sunday of Epiphany. About repentance
Lesson 2 on the Sunday of Epiphany. About repentance
Sermon 1 on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. The Character of the Publican and the Pharisee
Sermon 2 on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. About prayer and repentance
Lesson on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. About repentance
Lesson for the Meat Empty Week. About the Second Coming of Christ
Lesson for the Week of Cheese. Conditions for entering the Holy Pentecost
Conversation on Monday of the first week of Lent. Preparation for the Sacrament of Confession
Sermon on Wednesday of the first week of Lent. About the dangers of hypocrisy
Sermon on Friday of the first week of Lent. About the human body
Homily for the first Sunday of Great Lent. About Orthodoxy
Sermon for the Second Sunday of Great Lent. The meaning of fasting for a person
Sermon for the Third Sunday of Great Lent. About bearing the cross
Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent. The meaning of fasting in relation to fallen spirits
Sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent. Combining fasting with mercy and prayer
Word 1 of the Flower-Bearing Week
Word 2 of the Flower-Bearing Week
Homily on Holy Thursday at the Liturgy. About the Holy Mysteries of Christ
Homily on Great Friday at Vespers
Lesson for the Sunday of Antipascha. About Christianity
Teaching on the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, the third after Easter. About the deadness of the human spirit
Sermon on the Fourth Sunday after Easter, about the paralytic. About God's punishments
Lesson for the Sunday about the Samaritan. On Worshiping God in Spirit and Truth
Lesson for the Sunday about the man born blind. About self-conceit and humility
Teaching on All Saints Sunday, the first after Pentecost. Sign of God's Chosen
Sermon on Saturday of the fourth week. Condition for assimilation to Christ
Lesson for the Ninth Week. God is man's helper in his sorrows
Sermon on Tuesday of the eleventh week. To the words of the Savior “She who shows the law: judgment and mercy and faith”
Teaching on the words: “The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has multiplied against Me, and their sins have been great. When I come down I will see that if their cry comes to Me, it will be accomplished.”
Teaching for the Twelfth Week. About salvation
Conversation in the Thirteenth Week. About the reason for people's departure from God
Conversation in the twenty-second Week. About the rich man and the pauper
Word on Tuesday of the twenty-third week. Explanation of the Lord's Prayer: Our Father
Lesson 1 for the twenty-fifth Sunday. About the love of God
Lesson 2 for the twenty-fifth Week. About love for one's neighbor
Teaching for the Twenty-Sixth Week. About extortion
Teaching on Monday of the twenty-sixth week. About the Kingdom of God
Teaching for the Twenty-seventh Week. Explanation of the day's Gospel “Jesus taught alone from the congregation on the Sabbath”
Teaching for the Twenty-Eighth Week. Explanation of the day's Gospel: “A certain man made a great supper, and called many people”
Teaching for the twenty-ninth Week. On thanksgiving and glorification of God
Conversation on Monday of the twenty-ninth week. About signs and wonders
Lesson for the Thirtieth Week. About salvation and perfection
Lesson for the Thirty-First Week. Explanation of the mysterious meaning of the Gospel story
Lesson for the Thirty-Second Week. About Zacchaeus
Sermon on Saturday of the thirty-second week. About prayer
Teaching on the 54th beginning of the Gospel of Luke, read on the feast days of the Mother of God. About physical and mental feats
A lesson to the common people when visiting the diocese. About salvation
A conversation about the fact that for fruitful repentance it is necessary to reject self-conceit
Exposition of the teaching of the Orthodox Church about the Mother of God
Notes and essays on the state of the St. Petersburg deanery
A brief outline of the current state of the monasteries of the St. Petersburg diocese,
Description of the Valaam Monastery and the troubles that happened in it
The case of the peasants of the landowner Strakhov
Report of Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov from the Nikolo-Babaevsky Monastery
Report on the condition of the supernumerary cenobitic Nikolaevsky Babayevsky Monastery
AN OFFERING TO MODERN MONASKY
Part I. Rules of external behavior for new monks
Part II. Advice regarding spiritual monastic work
The lament of a monk for his brother who fell into sinful temptation
Archpastoral appeals of St. Ignatius on the issue of liberation of peasants from serfdom
Footnotes to the note by A. I. Herzen “In Christ the sapper Ignatius”
Comments on the review of the magazine “Bell” to the Caucasian Bishop Ignatius
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov in polemics with the liberal intelligentsia about the Christian understanding of freedom
Saint Ignatius at the Caucasus See
Selected sayings of the Fathers, mainly Egyptian, whose names have come down to us, and stories from the lives of these Fathers
Alexander, Patriarch of Antioch
Dioscorus, Presbyter of Thebaid
Abba Epiphanius, Archbishop of Cyprus
Eulogius, disciple of the Patriarch, John the Merciful
Abba Isidore, Presbyter of Skete
Abba Isaac, presbyter from Cells
Abba John from Mount Kalamon
Skitians (monks of the Egyptian Skete)
Saint Tikhon of Voronezh
Sayings of the elders, mainly Egyptian, especially the elders of Skete, whose names have not reached us
Tales from the lives of the elders, mainly Egyptian, whose names have not reached us
Venerable Simeon the New Theologian Active and Theological Chapters
Hagiographical, apologetic and literary-poetic works of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov
A remarkable dream of a resident of St. Petersburg N., recorded by Archimandrite Ignatius
Literature lessons taught by His Eminence Bishop Ignatius
Christian pastor and Christian artist
Reflections of Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov on church painting
Letter regarding “Selected passages from correspondence with friends” by N. V. Gogol
Saint Ignatius and the problem of creativity
Comments on the Maritime Educational Institutions Transformation Project
On the need for a Council on the current state of the Russian Orthodox Church
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov in the Nikolo-Babaevsky Monastery (1861–1867)
Death of Saint Ignatius
On the canonization of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov
CORRESPONDENCE OF ST. IGNATIUS BRYANCHANINOV WITH CHURCH ARCHIPRESES
Saint Philaret (Drozdov), Metropolitan of Moscow
Saint Philaret (Amphitheaters), Metropolitan of Kiev
Your Eminence Archbishops of Kostroma Platon (Thebes) and Yaroslavl Nile (Isakovich)
Eminence Leonid (Krasnopevkov)
Letters from St. Ignatius to Metropolitan Anthony (Rafalsky) of Novgorod and St. Petersburg
Letter from Saint Ignatius to Metropolitan Isidore (Nikolsky) of Novgorod and St. Petersburg and response to it
Letter from Saint Ignatius to Bishop Benedict (Grigorovich)
Letter from Saint Ignatius to Archbishop of Kursk and Belgorod Iliodor (Chistyakov)
Letter from His Grace Nicholas (Sokolov), Bishop of Kaluga, to St. Ignatius Brianchaninov and his response
Archbishop Irenaeus (Nesterovich)
Two letters from Archbishop Gabriel (Rozanov) of Kherson and Tauride to Saint Ignatius and the Saint’s response to the first of them
Letters of His Grace Theodotius (Ozerov), Bishop of Starorussky, to Saint Ignatius
Archbishop of Turkestan and Tashkent Zephaniah (Sokolsky)
Letter from His Grace Smaragd (Kryzhanovsky), Archbishop of Oryol, to Saint Ignatius
Letter from Saint Ignatius to His Grace Alexy (Rzhanitsyn), Bishop of Tula
Correspondence of Saint Theophan the Recluse with Saint Ignatius
HOLY IGNATIY BRYANCHANINOV AND RECENTS OF THE MONASTERIES
About the letters of Saint Ignatius and the abbot of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery of Damascus. Correspondence of Saint Ignatius with Abbot Damascus
Ugresha. Correspondence of Saint Ignatius with Abbot Hilary
Hegumen of the Southern Dorothea Hermitage Bartholomew. Letters of Saint Ignatius to Abbot Bartholomew
Hegumen Anthony (Bochkov). Life and creativity. Correspondence of Saint Ignatius with Abbot Anthony (Bochkov)
Archimandrite Feofan Novoezersky (Sokolov) and Abbess Feofaniya (Gotovtseva)
Archimandrite Photius (Spassky)
Friend of Archimandrite Ignatius Brianchaninov, Father Isaiah Nikiforovsky
Letter from Saint Ignatius to the Rostov Archimandrite
Letter from Archimandrite Aaron of the Trinity-Zelenetsky Monastery to St. Ignatius
Letter from the abbot of the Moscow Simonov Monastery Theophan to St. Ignatius
Letter from Archimandrite Athanasius of the Kostroma Epiphany Monastery to St. Ignatius
Letters from the rector of the Tikhvin Great Monastery, Archimandrite Hilarion, to St. Ignatius
Bishop Ignatius' remark on the testimony of Archimandrite Macarius, former rector of the Tver Seminary, now a censor, that evil spirits told him that a countless number of evil spirits were released to fight against the Orthodox Church, in unity with papism and Mohammedanism
Letter from Saint Ignatius to Lev Alexandrovich (in monastic life Leonid) Kavelin
Letters from the censor, Archimandrite Photius, to St. Ignatius
Letters of Saint Ignatius to the abbots of various monasteries
CORRESPONDENCE OF ST. IGNATIUS BRIANCHANINOV WITH MONAS
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov and blessed Optina Pustyn
Newly discovered early letters of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov
Elizaveta Nikitichna Shakhova
Letters of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov to monastics of different monasteries
Letters from monastics of various monasteries to St. Ignatius
Mikhail Vasilievich Chikhachev
Christian pastor and Christian artist
BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE OF ST. IGNATIUS BRYANCHANINOV
Correspondence of Saint Ignatius with the Minister of the Court of His Imperial Majesty, Prince P. M. Volkonsky
Letters from Saint Ignatius to the Minister of the Court of His Imperial Majesty, Count V. F. Adlerberg
Letter from Saint Ignatius to Metropolitan Gregory of Novgorod and St. Petersburg
Correspondence of Saint Ignatius with the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod, Count N. A. Protasov
Letters to St. Ignatius from the secretary of Metropolitan of Novgorod and St. Petersburg Seraphim A. I. Suslov
Letters from Saint Ignatius to the Director of the Office of the Synodal Chief Prosecutor K. S. Serbinovich
Letter from K. S. Serbinovich to St. Ignatius
Letters from Saint Ignatius to the Director of the Department of State Property N.P. Dubensky
Letter from Saint Ignatius to the Secretary of State, Prince A. N. Golitsyn
Letter to Saint Ignatius from Secretary of State Prince A. N. Golitsyn
Letter to Saint Ignatius from the Confessor of Sovereign Nicholas I, Nikolai Muzovsky
Letter from Saint Ignatius to Count Peter Andreevich Kleinmichel
Letter from Saint Ignatius to a certain high-ranking official
Letters from Saint Ignatius to the Administrator of the Committee of Ministers, F.P. Kornilov
Correspondence of the Caucasian period
Vladimir Voropaev. Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod Count A. P. Tolstoy
Olga Shafranova. Parents, brothers and sisters
CORRESPONDENCE OF ST. IGNATIUS BRIANCHANINOV WITH FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
Nikolai Nikolaevich Muravyov-Karsky
Friends of Saint Ignatius - from youth to his last days
Count Dmitry Nikolaevich Sheremetev
Tatyana Borisovna Potemkina
Letters of St. Ignatius without specifying the addressee
Letters of Saint Ignatius in response to those tempted by the “Word of Death”
Letters from various persons to Saint Ignatius
Letter from St. Ignatius Brianchaninov to the artist K. P. Bryullov (publication and comments by I. A. Vinogradov)
Letter from St. Ignatius Brianchaninov regarding “Selected passages from correspondence with friends” by N. V. Gogol (publication and comments by I. A. Vinogradov)
Sofia Ivanovna Snessoreva
Letters of Saint Ignatius to Ivan Ilyich Glazunov
POETIC EXPERIMENTS OF ST. IGNATIUS BRYANCHANINOV
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