Spiritual Counsels: select passages from MY LIFE IN CHRIST

Publication Data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1967
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: xxxii + 230
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.6 cm × 14.1 cm × 1.9 cm
ISBN: 0‒913836‒92‒3

   
Father John of Kronstadt
Edited and Introduced by W. Jardine Grisbooke

“Father John’s principal work, My Life in Christ, is a massive volume of some three hundred thousand words, and it has been no simple task to extract from it passages amounting to only a fifth of the total, and yet preserve the balance of his teaching. [...But i]t was not[...]impossible, to produce a very much shorter book which should nevertheless convey adequately the substance of the author’s teaching. The contents of the present volume have been selected and arranged, first, to give a reasonably balanced picture of Father John’s teaching, and, second, to provide a useful manual of spiritual advice for the believer of today.”
—“Introduction”

CONTENTS

   Introduction
1 The Ground of All Our Hope
2 The Necessity and Benefits of Prayer
3 The Manner of Prayer
4 The Difficulty of Prayer
5 The Help of the Church in Heaven
6 The Help of the Church on Earth
7 Sin and the Forgiveness of Sin
8 The Spiritual Warfare
9 The Mortification of the Flesh
10 The Mortification of the Fleshly Spirit
11 The Spiritual Life of the World
12 The Last Things