Living the Faith

This work includes three hundred and eighty-two letters of spiritual counsel from the Optina Elder Hieroschemamonk Anatoly (Zertsalov). Written in a tone that is both firm and tender, they are the words of a caring father for his spiritual children. These letters are grounded in the practical concerns raised by those who wrote to him. Most were originally addressed to sisters struggling in of convents in six dioceses, but the advice is clear, concise, profound in its simplicity, and profitable t