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Becoming Icons of Christ Harp of Glory — Enzira Sebhat popular patristics series number 39 mother raphaela Translated by John A. McGuckin recent releases Becoming Icons of Christ, the third in a series of collections of talks and essays by Mother Raphaela, continues the practical and plain-spoken The Harp of Glory is a major hymn sounding the praises of the , advice on life and growth in Christ introduced and developed in the from the heart of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in its Golden Age. It is a first two volumes. text hardly known in the Orthodox or Western churches, even though it is truly a religious and literary treasure of world significance. It approaches “When we find ourselves in our own times of passion, or when we are closely to the character and genius of the Byzantine Akathist to the Mother faced with the passion of others, we have only one way open to us to of God (which it seems to know in part) but is so profoundly rooted in a respond appropriately…we ask Christ to enter our lives, to teach us to different indigenous experience that it surely deserves the title of “An pray, and Himself to come, live, and pray within us. African Akathist.”

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