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THE SECOND BOOK: What contribution Holy Baptism makes to the life in Christ
How the Holy Mysteries unite us to Christ
Baptism as the new birth in Christ
How the various ceremonies preceding Baptism prepare for the new life in Christ: a) The exorcism, b) The insufflation, c) The stripping of the candidate, d) The renunciation, e) The recitation of the Nicene Creed, f) The anointing before Baptism
The baptimal act and its significance
The invocation of the Three-fold Name
How we in Baptism appropriate the saving acts of Christ
Baptism and original sin
The deliverance which Baptism obtains for us
How Baptism confers newness of life in Christ
Exursus - on the resurrection of the dead
How apostasy cannot destroy Christ's gift
Baptism and the powers of the age to come
How the effects of Baptism are shown
The example of the martyrs for Christ
How Baptism enables us to endure all things for Christ
How experience prepared the saints
How Baptism has converted scoffers to Christ
Baptism as a personal experience of God
How this experience engenders love for Him
The testimony of Saint John Chrysostom to this effect
Summary: The effects of Baptism

THE FIRST BOOK: How the life in Christ is constituted by means of the divine Mysteries of Baptism, Chrismation, and Holy Communion
How the life in Christ begins in this life
The life in Christ consists of union with Him
The intimacy of our union with Christ
In this union Christ is all-sufficient
We attain to this union by newness of life
Christ bestows this new life through His Mysteries
Christ's saving work as the foundation of the new life
How the righteous under the Old Covenant looked forward to their deliverance by Christ
How Christ opens to us the gates of life
The ransom which Christ has paid for us
The Mysteries as the means by which we appropriate Christ's saving work
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"I give waters in the wilderness,
rivers in the desert,
to give drink to My chosen people,
the people whom I formed for Myself
that they might declare My praise." - (Isaiah 44)
Cover art:
FRESCO OF THE RIVER OF FIRE
West End of the 16th century Monastery of Voronets, Romania

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Recorded in loving memory of Photios Kontoglou & Father Philotheos Zervakos

"The Vision of an Anonymous Monk"
Homily delivered by Elder Ephraim as Abbot to the Brotherhood of H.M. Philotheou on January 8th, 1976.
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"...A nun said to me that in our time a 'hot anti-hesychastic wind' is blowing which is burning everything..."
Orthodox Psychotherapy - The Science of the Fathers
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Chapter 5: Hesychia as a Method of Healing
Hesychia (Stillness)
Hesychasm
Anti-hesychasm
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