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The narrative of Chronicles serves as a vital exploration of the legacy of King David and his lineage, emphasizing their enduring significance for contemporary believers. Patrick Reardon illuminates these often-overlooked passages, transforming them into a compelling family history that resonates today. By tracing the genealogies and stories, he reveals how these accounts form the spiritual heritage of all true believers, offering insights into their cosmic importance and relevance in modern faith.

Focusing on nearly 150 saints and heroes from the Scriptures, this book explores their lives and contributions to faith. These figures symbolize the ancient family of believers, united through baptism, and form a "cloud of witnesses" that encourages and inspires contemporary readers through their words and actions.

The Wisdom of Sirach, also known as Ecclesiasticus, is a significant yet often overlooked text in Christian scripture, despite its presence in all major manuscripts of the Old Testament. Originally written in Hebrew and translated into Greek in the second century BCE, it represents one of the final additions to the Old Testament canon. Its exclusion from the Protestant canon contributes to its status as a hidden treasure of biblical wisdom, offering insights that remain relevant to readers exploring the richness of scriptural literature.

“I don’t know how to say what the grace of God is. What I can say is what it’s like for me.”   We all know about grace being amazing—after all, there’s a whole song about it—but Patrick Henry reminds us that that’s not all it is. It’s also intimidating, disorienting, demanding, reassuring, and sometimes even just downright mind-boggling. Describing thirty-three different aspects of grace based on his everyday experiences, Henry tells the story of a grace that is wide-ranging and comprehensive—if not always comprehensible. Rather than trying to capture and tame his encounters with God, he lets the mystery of memory speak for itself, exemplifying his mantra that being a Christian is about being “an explorer, not a colonizer.”  Flashes of Grace  is wise and grounded, earnest and light, faithful and quirky. Henry describes encountering grace in airports, baseball,   hazelnuts, and just about anywhere else you can imagine, while engaging with dialogue partners ranging from King Saul and Saint Augustine to Yogi Berra and Captain Picard. For anyone longing to connect (or reconnect) with God, this book provides a surprising journey that broadens perspectives and explores strange new worlds, while loosening stiff spiritual joints so movement can be free and spontaneous.

Exploring the Psalms, this book offers a deep and devotional journey through the Scriptures, highlighting their significance in the Early Church and among the Apostles. It provides rich insights that enhance understanding and appreciation of these sacred texts, making it suitable for Great Lent or any season of reflection. The engaging approach encourages readers to connect with the Psalms on a personal level, fostering a meaningful spiritual experience.

Exploring the Book of Genesis through an Orthodox Christian lens, this work delves into the theological and spiritual insights derived from its narratives. It highlights the significance of creation, humanity's relationship with God, and the moral lessons embedded in the text. The reflections aim to deepen understanding of faith and encourage readers to contemplate their own spiritual journeys, making ancient stories relevant to contemporary life. Through thoughtful analysis, the book invites a richer appreciation of Genesis's enduring impact on Christian thought.

Never collected in a definitive form and written using pseudonyms, these essays, speeches, and letters warned of the dangers inherent in a powerful central government, helping shape the passage of the United States Bill of Rights.

This poem sequence charts an international route through countries which the author visited before 2020 and which are now facing the pandemic crisis, beyond the usual problems of living.The book attempts to imagine or recall how people respond to such trials, catching this sense within the concise shape of a poem.

This is no book for biblical beginners, and one suspects it is a work more often misinterpreted than correctly understood. Unless a person is extraordinarily familiar with all the rest of Holy Scripture, understanding very much of the Book of Revelation will be an extremely arduous task. Since the book s arcane symbolism is so rich and subtle, Christian humility will especially prompt the devout reader to be more than usually careful and tentative in his study of it, bearing in mind that the book s purpose is not to satisfy our curiosity about the final times (inasmuch as not even the angels in heaven and therefore certainly no one on earth truly know the day and hour, as our Lord insisted in the Gospels) but to summon our ongoing repentance. Fr Patrick Henry Reardon argues that the Book of Revelation is “liturgical prophecy.” Like the prophets of old, it is not a work of theological abstraction, but grounded in particular historical realities: it is only timeless by being timely. Revelation conveys the call to repentance in all times with equal immediacy. Likewise, the Apocalypse is liturgical. The vision begins during the Sunday liturgy, and it conveys the profound meaning of Christian worship. When Christians gather together in the liturgy, they do not escape from the painful history of the world. On the contrary, they go to the very source of that history, the eternal throne of God. Surrounded by the seeming chaos of the world and the events of men, threatened by social and political forces dominated by the direction of hell, Christians are strengthened by John’s vision of their worship being assumed into the very worship that takes place before God’s throne