Theophan the Recluse
On Repentance, Communion and Amendment of Life
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On Repentance, Communion and Amendment of Life
О покаянии, причащении Святых Христовых Таин и исправлении жизни

Fifty instructions for the preparatory weeks of Great Lent and Holy Week, drawing on the parables of the publican and the Pharisee or the prodigal son: sincere repentance as the foundation of the spiritual life, the danger of self-satisfaction, preparation for confession and communion and lasting amendment.
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Theophan the Recluse
О покаянии
The Conscious LibraryО покаянии
Tipo-litografía I. Efímov, Moscú, 1895
Other works by Theophan the Recluse
- The Philokalia (Dobrotolubie) in Russian translation, enlarged, 5 vols · 1877
- The Path to Salvation: A Brief Outline of Ascetics · 1868
- What Is the Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned to It · 1878
- Collected Letters (8 parts) · 1898
- Letters on the Christian Life · 1860
- Letters on the Spiritual Life · 1870
- Letters to Various Persons on Various Matters of Faith and Life · 1880
- On the Jesus Prayer, in Letters to Schema-Igumen Herman and Schemamonk Agapius · 1880
- Selected Letters on Sects and Heresies
- Last Counsels and Correspondence of the Last Year · 1894
- Letters to Tatiana Vladimirovna Netsvetaeva · 1887
- Letters to Archpriest Mikhail Kheraskov · 1892
- Unpublished letters (to I. D. Andreyev, to 'S. V.' and others)
- Four Homilies on Prayer · 1872
- Outline of Christian Moral Teaching · 1891
- Survey of the Religion under the Law · 1841
- Sermons of the Rector of the St Petersburg Academy · 1859
- Sermons to the Flock of Tambov · 1861
- Nine Homilies on the Fires in Tambov · 1860
- Sermons to the Flock of Vladimir · 1863
- The Inner Life (collected sermons) · 1859
- The Heavenly Protection over Us · 1865
- On Orthodoxy, with Warnings against Errors · 1863
- Reminder to Nuns of What Monasticism Requires of Them · 1892
- On Complete Conversion to God from the Seductions of the World and Sin · 1867
- Resolving Perplexities on the Parable of the Unjust Steward · 1869
- Lessons from the Deeds and Words of the Lord · 1870
- Guidelines for Composing a Single Gospel History from the Four Gospels · 1871
- The Gospel History of God the Son Incarnate · 1885
- The Six Psalms (commentary) · 1871
- Commentary on Psalm 118
- Selected Psalms (commentaries) · 1881
- Commentary on the Shepherd of Hermas
- Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
- The Soul and the Angel Are Not Body but Spirit
- Contemplation and Reflection · 1869
- The God-Pleasing Life in General · 1893
- Our Relation to Churches · 1893
- Sermons for the Feasts of the Lord, the Mother of God and Solemn Days · 1883
- Five Teachings on the Path to Salvation · 1887
- Three Homilies on Bearing the Cross
- Without Effort You Will Not Be Saved · 1889
- Two Homilies on the Sacrament of Baptism · 1886
- A Brief Teaching on the Worship of God · 1845
- What the Penitent Who Has Entered the Good Path Needs · 1847
- Instruction on Progress in the Christian Life
- The Incarnate Economy: An Essay in Christian Psychology
- On the Publication of the Old Testament in Russian Translation · 1875
- On Our Duty to Hold to the Septuagint · 1876
- On the Use of the New Translation of the Old Testament and on the Hebrew Text · 1876
- Instruction for Preaching the Word of God · 1864
- Manuscripts from the Cell
- Address before the Funeral of Archimandrite Innocent · 1847
- Commentary on Romans · 1890
- Commentary on 1 Corinthians
- Commentary on 2 Corinthians
- Commentary on Galatians
- Commentary on Ephesians
- Commentary on Philippians
- Commentary on Colossians
- Commentary on 1 Thessalonians
- Commentary on 2 Thessalonians
- Commentary on 1 Timothy
- Commentary on 2 Timothy
- Commentary on Titus
- Commentary on Philemon
- Commentary on Hebrews (introduction) · 1896
- Unseen Warfare
- Ancient Monastic Rules (Pachomius, Basil, Cassian, Benedict) · 1892
- Discourses of Symeon the New Theologian
- Ancient Paterikon (and Palestinian paterikon) · 1847
- Miterikon (sayings of the Desert Mothers)
- The Spiritual Psalter of St Ephrem the Syrian · 1874
- The Holy Fathers on Prayer and Sobriety · 1881
- Awake, O Sleeper! (patristic anthology) · 1868
- Selected Hymns from the Octoechos
- The Lord's Prayer Explained in the Words of the Fathers
- The Art of Prayer (anthology of Igumen Chariton) · 1936
- Instructions on the Spiritual Life (anthology)
Sources
- Azbuka very, «святитель Феофан Затворник»: biografía, «Творческое наследие» (traducciones, juicio de Veniamín (Milov) y A. I. Sídorov, polémica con Ignati, Septuaginta) y catálogo de obras con sus fechas.
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