I remember when I first discovered Anchored in God, by Constantine Cavarnos. Little did I know that decades later part of the large correspondence of the late Elder would be translated into English and published in the West. Monastic Wisdom is divided into two sections, plus a Preface, Prolegomena, and Epilogue. The book is also profusely illustrated with black and white and color photographs, including rare views of the Elder's humble cell and grave on the Holy Mountain. My children, real happiness is neither in dignities nor in comforts of the body.
True happiness is in virtue.
This new volume is more that 400 pages of valuable excerpts from letters to monastics and laypeople, as well as extracts from sermons, of a monk who was a spiritual son of the rightly famous Elder Joseph the Hesychast. An appreciative Prologue by the renowned spiritual writer, Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, and a helpful glossary of spiritual terms, completes this highly recommended companion to Monastic Wisdom.