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Archimandrite Vassilios interprets the Ladder for the Tending the Garden of Our Hearts offers family ordinary Christian without sacrificing any of its beauty and power. devotions based on the scriptures for each day of Now you too can accept the challenge offered by St. John Great Lent, including questions to discuss and ponder Climacus to ascend closer to God with each passing day. and an appendix full of hands-on activities to bring the lessons of the season to life. Whether you use it Paperback, 250 pages every day or dip into it occasionally as time permits, 9781936270897—$18.95 this book will help the whole family get more out of Also available as an ebook this crucial season of the Orthodox year. Paperback Meditations for Great Lent 5.5 X 8.5, 264 pages Reflections on the Triodion 9781944967536—$17.95 by Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou Also available as an ebook Using hymns from the Triodion and the Scripture readings appointed for the season, Meditations for Great Lent shows us how to make our fast acceptable: to fast not only from food but from sin; to fast with love and humility, as a means to an end and not an end in itself. Keep this gem of a book with you to inspire you for the Fast and to dip into for encouragement as you pursue your Lenten journey. Paperback, 96 pages 9781936270606—$9.95 Also available as an ebook Meditations for Holy Week Dying and Rising with Christ FROM THE INTRODUCTION by Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou “As we raise our children in the Church, we must find ways to grow through the experience of Great Lent together: to fast together, to attend Archimandrite Vassilios brings his liturgical and devotional insights and church together, to do works of service together, and to study together. It is our hope that these meditations will give the family something warm, accessible style to bear on the services of Holy Week, helping helpful to dig into and learn together, sparking conversation and helping to bring the fast to life in the home. And as we take this journey the reader enter fully into this most rich and intense period of the together, we’ll be learning why we live out Great Lent as we do. May this holy therapy heal the hearts of our families!” Christian year. Paperback, 134 pages 9781936270880—$12.95 Also available as an ebook Elissa Bjeletich hosts three popular Ancient Kristina Wenger is a mom of two who enjoys Meditations for Pascha Faith Radio podcasts: Raising Saints, Everyday interacting with little people. She is an Orthodox, and together with Kristina Wenger, educator who has taught first grade and Reflections on the Pentecostarion Tending the Garden of Our Hearts. She is the Sunday church school, homeschooled, and by Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou co-author of Blueprints for the Little Church: co-founded an educational organization. Far from being merely a “vacation from fasting,” the Creating an Orthodox Home (Ancient Faith She works part time for the Antiochian Pascha season is a time that, properly understood, can Publishing, 2016) and author of Welcoming the Orthodox Department of Christian Education, greatly enrich our faith. 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