St. Aidan Orthodox Church Bookstore and Library
Lenten Bookstore Orders
One big bookstore order is made three-or-four times a year to save shipping costs. For our next big order at the end of February you can let us know at [email protected] what you would like to order from the following sites:
https://store.ancientfaith.com/
https://www.uncutmountainsupply.com/
https://www.alexanderpress.com/shop
Money for your order can be e-transferred to [email protected], or you can pay in-person at the church.
Head over to the library page on our website to borrow a book. Click on St. Aidan library listings for summaries, author info, reviews, etc.
New Library Books!
Season of Repentance: Lenten Homilies of Saint John of Kronstadt
Each year we begin anew the journey to the radiant feast of Pascha, entering the season of repentance known as Great Lent. The homilies presented in this modest volume, from one of the spiritual giants of the Orthodox Church of Russia, can both encourage and inform us in this struggle of the Fast.
For the first time a selection of St John’s Lenten sermons is presented in English translation. They follow the thematic structure of the Lenten season in the Orthodox Church, from the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee through to Great and Holy Friday. A sermon for St Thomas Sunday, that follows Holy Pascha, is offered as an Epilogue.
More Spirited than Lions. This book traces the historical development of feminism from an Orthodox
Perspective. It outlines its basic assumptions and beliefs, assesses its
contributions, and offers an Orthodox critique to the feminist platform. Most
importantly, it offers thoughts for an alternative approach, namely the ideal
of Christian womanhood, as found in the tradition of the Church.
“a woman again is honored and proclaimed victorious! Again are we men put to
shame. Or rather, we are not put to shame only, but have even an honor
conferred upon us. For an honor we have, in that there are such women among us,
but we are put to shame, in that we men are left so far behind by them. For the
women of those days were more spirited than lions, sharing with the Apostles
their labors for the Gospel’s sake.” -St. John Chrysostom
Everyday Saints and Other Stories’ by Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov. “In Communist Russia in 1984, five youths from non-religious backgrounds joined a monastery. This is the story of what they experienced and some of the “everyday saints” they met. The author says, “In this book I want to tell you about this beautiful new world of mine, where we live by laws completely different from those in ‘normal’ worldly life—a world of light and love, full of wondrous discoveries, hope, happiness, trials and triumphs, where even our defeats acquire profound significance: a world in which, above all, we can always sense powerful manifestations of divine strength and comfort.”