MONASTERY BOOKS
   

Announcing the latest volume in the green HOLY FATHERS SERIES:

PRELUDE TO LIGHT

Compiled and Edited by Johanna Manley

  
    This book provides highlights of the entire Old Testament – from Genesis to Maccabees – to familiarize the reader with its fascinating stories, prophets, wisdom, and history. It is done chronologically, by means of a dialog between the Old and the New Testament for easy daily reading. Lucent commentaries by Holy Fathers are added to show the meaning for modern readers. The light of Christ, the Messiah, shines through much of the book.

Both the hard-back and soft-cover versions comprise 400 pages and are fully illustrated. The former is also provided with a ribbon marker. There is a detailed Table of Contents indicating Old Testament passages, and thematically matched New Testament quotations, as well as patristic commentators. As in previous volumes, various indexes are provided: an Index of Holy Fathers; and in an Appendix: a Table of Psalms; Some Liturgical uses of the Old Testament for Orthodox; a list of Biblical Odes and Chronology of Selected Kings and Events; an Index of New Testament passages; and a Subjects Index of Commentaries by Holy Fathers.

  
     
   

(click here for excerpt)

    
   

Hard-back Retail $31.00

Soft-cover Retail: $25.00

ISBN 978-0-9622536-5-2

    
 
   

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“But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them … For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”.


2 Corinthians 4:3-4, 4:6

  

Where did He command light to shine out of darkness? In the beginning and in prelude to the Creation … but He Himself became Light for us … Therefore neither do we see sensible

 
         
       

objects by the shining of this Light, but God Himself through Christ.

 

St. John Chrysostom

 

Homily 8 on

2 Corinthians 4

  
 
               
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