Patristic Miscellanea
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- St. Romanos the Melodist (fl. c. AD 540), "Kontakion
on the Nativity of Christ", from Archimandrite Ephrem Lash (tr.), Kontakia
On the Life of Christ (HarperCollins Publishers, San Francisco: 1995).
Includes my own translation of stanza 19, which is missing from Fr. Lash's
volume.
- St. John of Karpathos, "For
the Encouragement of the Monks in India who had Written to Him: One Hundred
Texts" and "Ascetic Discourse Sent at the Request of the Same Monks in India:
A Supplement to the One Hundred Texts". Texts from G.E.H. Palmer, P.
Sherrard, and K. Ware, The Philokalia: The Complete Text (Faber and
Faber, London & Boston: 1979), pp. 297-326.
- Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, "Prayer
in St Isaac of Nineveh". Paper delivered at the Conference on Prayer
and Spirituality in the Early Church, Melbourne, Australia, August 1995.
Based on Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian
(Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2000).
- Pope St. Gregory the Great (+605), Menstruation and Holy Communion: Instructions to St. Augustine of Canterbury, Enlightener of England. Published in The Orthodox Church, Dec 1987. See also the articles by K.C. Hanson on "Blood and Purity" and by Christos Yannaras on "The Church Canons and the Limits Set to Life".
