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How is our Christian faith properly lived? Is Christianity a series of abstract teachings to which we, as individuals, give our mental or emotional assent? Or, as Russian Archbishop and New Martyr Ilarion (Troitsky) argues, is the true aim of Christian life the transformation of our whole being as members of the Body of Christ, His Church?

Learn about the legacy of the Russian Empire's activities in the Near East in the century before World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, motivated by feelings of kinship between Orthodox communities as an aid to understanding today's geopolitical situation.

Lives of early saints of Helvetia (modern day Switzerland) are presented here as an aid for pilgrims, travelers, and all who wish to deepen their understanding of the Church as truly Universal. The lives of Swiss saints are organized in a calendar. Also included are troparia to individual saints, an Akathist, sheet music for a pattern melody, service texts for remembering the Synaxis of the Saints of Switzerland liturgically, as well as maps and illustrations.

This liturgical guide offers detailed rubrics for every Sunday and major feast of the year, as well as certain lesser feasts and lenten days. The calendar also provides a list of commemorated saints and appointed scripture readings for each day of the year. Follows the Orthodox Church calendar, sometimes referred to as the Julian or Old Calendar.