Expression of Monastic Experience (in Russian)

Letters of Elder Joseph the Hesychast

Russian edition of the "Monastic Wisdom"

This collection of Elder Joseph the Hesychast’s letters makes the wealth of his wisdom and experience available to readers from all walks of life. As his extreme ascetical sturggles and hesychastic lifestyle unfold througout the pages, one witnesses his difficlut trials and lenghty battles with the demons, his profound visions and inspired spiritual guidance, his martyric endurance in illnesses, and finally his holy repose - leaving one with the certainty that Elder Joseph was a rare example of sanctity for modern times.

Russian. Hardbound. 463 pp. Published by the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, Sergiev Posad, Russia.