Saint John of Kronstadt

Instructions, Words, and Talks for Sunday Days, Issue X: The Sixteenth to Twenty-Fifth Sundays after Pentecost

19th c. · Asceticism & Spirituality · English translation, 2026

43,966 words · 3.7 hr read· Moderate

Source edition: Поучения, слова и беседы на недельные дни (с 16 по 25-ю по Пятидесятнице). Выпуск X (azbyka.ru; from the pre-revolutionary Russian edition)

Cover art: The Volga — Isaac Levitan (Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)

The third and final volume of Sunday sermons, following the Gospel readings from the sixteenth through the twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost -- the parable of the talents, the rich man and Lazarus, and the Good Samaritan -- with a sustained call to mercy toward the poor and living faith as the path to healing.