Chapter 18 is on the spiritual elder Mother Thekla

Books:

• The Dark Glass: Meditations in Orthodox Spirituality
• Eternity Now: An Introduction to Orthodox Spirituality

Chapter 19 is on the spiritual elders Saint Silouan and Father Sophrony

Saint Silouan drew a sharp distinction between the notion of legal responsibility and the love of Christ, which sees ‘ nothing strange, but rather something entirely natural, in sharing the guilt of those we love, and even in assuming full responsibility for their wrong-doing’: something that does away with any notion of self-justification. All this was the result of the saint’s experience of prayer, on which Father Sophrony commented: ‘ Intense prayer, my Father Silouan’s, for the world leads to an awareness of the ontological community between one’s personal existence and the existence of all mankind’.
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Please find here the first post of this series, with a general presentation of the book.