First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journey through the Canon of St. Andrew Franciscan and often stigmatized

and often stigmatized

and they achieve it with spiritual sincerity and power

Also featured are the Missa Brevis

after The Bible and The Imitation of Christ

First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journey through the Canon of St. Andrew Franciscan and often stigmatizedJoin Frederica Mathewes Green on a guided retreat through an ancient Orthodox text. Regardless of your denominational background, First Fruits of Prayer will bring to life the prayer experience of first millennium Christianity through immersion in this poetic hymn, an extraordinarily beautiful work that is still chanted by Christians around the world each Lent. It weaves together Old and New Testament Scriptures with prayers of hope and repentance and