What are you reading?

[Hermit76]

I picked up a copy of My Life in Christ this week. I’m enjoying it immensely. If you don’t know it’s segments of the teaching and wisdom of St. John of Kronstadt.

What are you reading right now?

 

[OrthodoxWanderer]

Life has gotten crazier lately, so I have only skimmed this book

Ethics of Beauty — St Nicholas Press

But I have loved what I have read so far. I can't wait to give it a proper read-through. My priest highly recommended it to me.

(The link has a big discount for anyone interested; otherwise the book is pricy on other retailers)

 

[All4Christ]

We are starting a nativity book club this week. The book we are reading is Seven Holy Women.

 

[Frankl]

Saint Paisios of Mount Athos by Hieromonk Isaac

 

[Brightmoon]

Tom Wolfe’s old best seller Bonfire of the Vanities. It hasn’t aged well in some aspects and is dead on in others

 

[Justin-H.S.]

Currently:

The Gospel - St Matthew
The Mystical Marriage - Elder Aimilianos
Wounded by Love - St Porphyrios
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age - Fr Seraphim Rose

 

[ArmyMatt]

Matthew's Gospel, Clement of Alexandria's Stromata, and The Freedom of Morality by Yannaras.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Piles of boring torture Masters research. That’s what I’m reading. Three weeks until sweet freedom!!

 

[Ezana]

Monastic Wisdom and A Spiritual Psalter have been mainstays of my daily reading lately. I've also been going through some homilies by St. Gregory Palamas, as well as a paperback edition of Fr. Seraphim's Orthodox Survival Course.

 

[SingularityOne]

Fr. Seraphim Rose, His Life and His Works

 

[AMM]

St Luke’s gospel, 2 Thessalonians, St John Maximovitch’s Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God, and a non-religious book called No Citizen Left Behind

 

[Lg2000]

Just started reading , the reason for god . I ain't read a book other than the bible in years.

 

[E.C.]

"The First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood" by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra. It's an autobiography of the author's childhood in Bethlehem as a Syriac Orthodox from toddler to twelve years old.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

What am I reading?

The prokeimenon, alleluia, and epistle each Sunday.

 

[GreekOrthodox]

The "Unseen Warfare" series by Father Jack Sparks. This is a set of three books, though Western in origin, the profound spiritual insights of "Spiritual Combat" were recognized by Eastern writers such as Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain and Saint Theophan the Recluse, who subsequently edited and revised it in accordance with traditional Orthodox beliefs.

 

[SingularityOne]

Fr. George Calciu's Interviews, Talks, and Homilies

 

[Lawrence87]

I'm one of those start twelve books at once kinds of people.

Currently I have these on the go:
Turning the Heart to God - St. Theophan the Recluse
Victory in the Unseen Warfare - Jack Sparks
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
The Life and Teaching of Saint Seraphim of Sarov - N. Puretzki
Trampling Down Death by Death - Fr. Spyridon Bailey

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

At this precise moment....the Apostol, prepping for tomorrow

 

[SalemOrthodox]

I'm one of those start twelve books at once kinds of people.

I gave you the "funny" emote because I do the same. Though I don't mind putting down some books when they are a bit heavy, and picking it back again later. I have ~10 "in progress" or that I read for 40-60 pages, and put down again.

What I continue to go back to lately is:
Spiritual Counsels of Elder Paisios - Vol. 1 - With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man

Then bits and pieces of these (which are deep for me):
Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Wounded by Love: The Life and Wisdom of Saint Porphyrios Paperback

 

[SingularityOne]

St. Nikolaj Velimirović’s Homilies: I & II