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The Psalter of John by John Etheridge M.D. |
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John Etheridge, a surgeon in Corpus Christi, Texas is a firmly devout member of the Episcopal Church - a fact to which these pages will give ample testimony. Several years ago he attended a retreat in the course of which the participants were challenged to write psalms of praise. Dr. Etheridge accepted the challenge and here are the fruits of his labor. To King David's list of the praiseworthy he has made additions: devoted wives, angelic granddaughters, single malt whiskey, devoted friends, radiant sunsets, competent surgeons, skillful nurses, Red the barber and dry martinis. Nor does he fail to beg forgiveness for his own and all of our faults in what amounts to a severe attention deficit disorder in our relationship with the Lord. The book is altogether a great hymn of prayer and praise to which members of almost any denomination will subscribe. We have here a modern Brother Lawrence with a contemporary Practice of the Presence of God. ISBN 0-87243-225-4 $12.95 |
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Flame in the Snow by Julia de Beausobre |
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This is a fictionalized biography of St. Sarafim of Sarov who has become the most popular saint in the Orthodox Church, occupying a place somewhat like that of St. Francis of Assisi in the Western churches. It paints a vivid picture of the life of the many-faceted society in the Russia of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The introduction to this edition is provided by Donald Nichol, one of Great Britain's most noted scholars and former director of the well-known ecumenical institute of Tantur, Israel. He writes: "a second event (after his conversion to Christianity) for which I have reason to be forever grateful happened soon afterwards, when I met a man who has touched me more than any other historical figure of the last thousand years, namely, St. Sarafim of Sarov. It was Sarafim's custom to greet all who came to him with the words, `Radost moya, Christes voskrese!' `My joy, Christ is risen!' And I felt he had greeted me with the very same words when I met him in the pages of Julia de Beausobre's Flame in the Snow." Julia de Beausobre was a Russian emigre who fled to England in the course of the Bolshevik revolution. She was widely known in Russia as a poet and novelist of great talent and especially for her translations of English classics into Russian. ISBN 0-87243-223-8 $12.95 |
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