Northern ThebaidFrom the fourth century A. D., the desert Thebaid of Egypt was the home of thousands of monks and nuns who made the desert a city peopled with Christians striving toward heaven in the angelic way of life. A thousand years later, no fewer thousands of monks and nuns, likewise seeking union with God, went to live in the forests of northern Russia, creating what has become known as the Northern Thebaid. Just as the sultry African nature with its clear

through man's use of it

Open this book and you will discover a wondrous

who dedicated one of his last works to the Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church

The early Fathers understood one of the Angels to be Christ Himself

Father Arseny

is revered as the Church’s greatest homilist and interpreter of Holy Scripture

as he urges us on our journey toward God

confessing the monks and laymen who came to the monastery

" The original icon was painted in Russia by iconographer Natalia Popel

“The God-man – The Foundation of the Truth of Orthodoxy"

You'll have them all coming back for more

A biography of the author