Source: St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
St Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos. SVS Press will serve as the exclusive American distributor of books published by Vatopedi Monastery in the English language.
To begin this partnership, Vatopedi Monastery’s “Holy Mountain Series” and other titles will be made available through the SVS Press Mount Athos Collection. The Holy Mountain Series shares the spiritual patrimony of the Holy Mountain with the English-speaking world, making the lives and teachings of recent Athonite saints and elders readily available and accessible.
Vatopedi is one of the twenty great monasteries on Mount Athos and has preserved the spiritual riches and heritage of the Orthodox Church for over a thousand years. Archimandrite Ephraim, the current abbot, is a spiritual son of Elder Joseph, himself a disciple of St Joseph the Hesychast. The Vatopedi publications to be released in the SVS Press Mount Athos Collection will begin with 1) Letters and Poems of Saint Joseph the Hesychast, 2) Saint Joseph the Hesychast: Life and Teachings, 3) Saint Ephraim of Katounakia: The Disciple Full of Grace, and 4) Christian Ethics Vol. 1, by Georgios Mantzarides. All four titles are now available from SVS Press.
To celebrate the launch of this series in the English language, Archimandrite Ephraim will give a live-streamed talk on the Letters and Poems of Saint Joseph the Hesychast in the near future.
The Rev. Ignatius Green, senior editor of SVS Press, helped to establish this new relationship with Vatopedi Monastery through ongoing communication with the monks leading its publishing operations.
“I am overjoyed to see the lives, writings, and teachings of recent Athonite saints and elders made available in English,” said Fr Ignatius. “The Ladder of Divine Ascent says, ‘Angels are a light for monks, and the monastic life is a light for all men.’ This light will shine all the more clearly now that these most recent fruits from the Garden of the Mother of God are available to spiritual strugglers in the English-speaking world. Glory to God!”