{"product_id":"harvest","title":"Harvest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAttentive prayer ? can be compared to the beneficial rain that irrigates a sown field, gives nourishment to the plants and ensures a rich harvest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGod?s rich blessings on ?the crown of the year? can be experienced in their fullness throughout the annual cycle of Church services. This penultimate volume of the \u003cem\u003eCollected Works of St Ignatius (Brianchaninov)\u003c\/em\u003e contains fifty-two sermons given on Sundays, during Great Lent and Paschatide, and other occasions, including the foundation of a new monastery, and a presentation on the teaching of the Orthodox Church on the Mother of God.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAn eclectic translator and compiler of the writings of the ancient desert fathers, St Ignatius not only freely weaves their words into his own preaching, but exhorts his readers to follow their example, so that they too may reap a rich spiritual harvest in this life and in the age to come. Particularly inspired by the writings of St Isaac the Syrian, St Macarius the Great, and St John of the Ladder, he also applies Holy Scripture and liturgical hymnography in his preaching to monastics and laypeople alike.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA towering figure of 19th century monasticism, St Ignatius's influence has spread far beyond Imperial Russia, inspiring Orthodox Christians around the world in our own times. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Harvest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is the last volume of his collected works to be translated into English, representing the completion of a fifty-four year project to bring his timeless works to a new audience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483335434613,"sku":"9780884655060","price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780884655060.jpg?v=1786178473","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/harvest","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}