About the author Archimandrite Zacharias. He is the spiritual son of St Sophrony of Essex England

What This Means in the Essex Tradition

Within the lineage of St. Silouan → St. Sophrony → Archimandrite Zacharias:

Zacharias is considered the primary living interpreter of St. Sophrony’s theology.

He served as St. Sophrony’s translator, student, and closest theological heir.

About the book:

The Way of the Lord

Through the Triodion and Pentecostarion

The Church has established the feasts throughout the year as landmarks for the renewal of grace and the regeneration of the life of her members. The greatest landmarks of renewal for the faithful are, on the one hand, the period of the Triodion, which brings forth the grace of entering into the living Presence of the Risen Lord, and, on the other hand, the period of the Pentecostarion, which leads to the fulfilment of the promise of the Father in the gift of the Paraclete. The asceticism of Great Lent could be described as ‘negative’ or ‘apophatic,’ as it aims at stripping away the old self of the passions so that the ascetic of godliness, being free, may be able to run ‘the way of the divine commandments’ (Ps. 119:32) and follow Christ ‘whithersoever He may go’ (Rev. 14:4). From the night of Pascha, another kind of asceticism begins—not ‘negative,’ but ‘positive’ or ‘cataphatic’—which trains man in the expectation of the promise of the Father and fervent thirst for the grace of the Holy Spirit.

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