New Terrible Words on the Dread, Truly Coming and Approaching Judgment of God
19th c. · Asceticism & Spirituality · English translation, 2026
Source edition: Новые грозные слова о Страшном поистине Суде Божием, грядущем и приближающемся (azbyka.ru; from the pre-revolutionary Russian edition)
Cover art: The Great Day of His Wrath (1853) — John Martin (Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Forty-four addresses from Father John's last years, almost all preached in the shadow of the 1905 revolution, urging repentance in view of the coming judgment of God, and closing with a contemporary account, by others, of hierarchs visiting him in his final illness and defending him against a theatrical slander campaign.
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Contents
Part 1
- 3. Word I
- 4. Word II. February 25, 1907
- 5. Word III. April 16, 1907
- 6. Word IV
- 7. Word V. On the Third Sunday of Great Lent—the Veneration of the Cross
- 8. Word VI
- 9. Word VII
- 10. Word VIII. On Great and Holy Friday
- 11. Word IX. Awake, Drunkards!
- 12. Word X. Father John’s Service in St. Petersburg
- 13. Word XI
- 14. Word XII. The Expulsion of Adam and Eve From Paradise
- 15. Word XIII. Earthly Kingdoms Are Shaken and Fall Through Unbelief and…
- 16. Word XIV. On the Day Commemorating and Celebrating the Sacred Anointing and…
- 17. Word XV. On the Birthday of Our Most Pious Sovereign Empress Alexandra…
- 18. Word XVI. On the Day of Holy Pentecost, or the Descent of the Holy Spirit…
- 19. Word XVII. On Palm Sunday, or the Day of the Lord’s Entry Into Jerusalem
- 20. Word XVIII. On Great Friday
- 21. Word XIX. On the Day of the Sacred Anointing and Coronation to the Throne…
- 22. Word XX. Concerning the Departure of Certain Persons From the Bosom of the…
- 23. Word XXI. On the End of the World and the Dread Judgment of God
- 24. Word XXII
Part 2
- 26. Word I. On the Most Glorious Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God
- 27. Word II. On the Day of the Accession to the All-Russian Ancestral Throne of…
- 28. Word III. On Fasting and Prayer
- 29. Words and Thoughts on Vodka, Tobacco, and Foul Speech, Drawn From the…
- 30. Word V. On the Most Glorious Transfiguration in the Flesh of Our Lord and…
- 31. Word VI. On the Most Glorious Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God
- 32. Word VII
- 33. Word VIII
- 34. Word IX. On the Day of the Translation of the Holy Relics of the…
- 35. Word X. On the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost
- 36. Word XI. On the Day of the Holy Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless…
- 37. Word XII. On the Day of Remembrance of the Holy, Glorious, and All-Praised…
- 38. Word XIII
- 39. Word XIV. On the Most Glorious Ascension in the Flesh of Our Lord Jesus…
- 40. Word XV
- 41. Word XVI. On the Day of the Glorious Exaltation of the Precious and…
- 42. Word XVII
- 43. Word XVIII. On the Most Glorious Entry of the Most Holy Mother of God Into…
- 44. Word XIX. On the Most Glorious Nativity in the Flesh of Our Lord and God…
- 45. A Word Delivered on December 6, 1907, in the Kronstadt Andreevsky Cathedral
- The Author: Saint John of Kronstadt