Commentary - The Acts of the Apostles and rooted in each person’s

and rooted in each person’s faith and life in Christ

As the modern reader is confronted with St

cut off by the persecutions and invasions and occupations which beset the East throughout most of the centuries since the fall of Constantinople and even before: a voice we need to hear to understand the fullness of Orthodoxy

What the Church Fathers say about Repentance

Commentary - The Acts of the Apostles and rooted in each person’sWriting in the tradition of biblical exegetes, such as St John Chrysostom, Blessed Theophylact of Bulgaria, and St Theophan the Recluse, the work of Archbishop Averky (Taushev) provides a commentary that is firmly grounded in the teaching of the Church, manifested in its liturgical hymnography and the works of the Holy Fathers. Using the best of prerevolutionary Russian sources, these writings also remained abreast of developments in Western biblical