Instructions, Words, and Talks for Sunday Days, Issue VIII: The First to Fifth Sundays after Pentecost
19th c. · Asceticism & Spirituality · English translation, 2026
Source edition: Поучения, слова и беседы на недельные дни (с 1 по 5 по Пятидесятнице). Выпуск VIII (azbyka.ru; from the pre-revolutionary Russian edition)
Cover art: Moscow Courtyard (1878) — Vasily Polenov (Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
The first of three volumes of Sunday sermons, following the Gospel readings from the Sunday of All Saints through the fifth Sunday after Pentecost (the calling of the Apostles, the healing of the centurion's servant, and the Gadarene demoniacs), with a recurring call to simplicity of heart over worldly cunning.
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Contents
- Editor’s Introduction
- 1. Instructions, Words, and Talks for Sunday Days (The First to Fifth Sundays…
- 2. Instruction for the Sunday of All Saints
- 3. Instruction for the Sunday of All Saints (3)
- 4. A Word for the Sunday of All Saints
- 5. Instruction for the Sunday of All Saints (5)
- 6. Instruction for the Second Sunday After Pentecost
- 7. Instruction for the Second Sunday After Pentecost (7)
- 8. A Word for the Second Sunday After Pentecost
- 9. A Word for the Second Sunday After Pentecost (9)
- 10. Instruction for the Second Sunday After Pentecost (10)
- 11. A Word for the Second Sunday After Pentecost (11)
- 12. A Talk for the Third Sunday After Pentecost
- 13. Instruction for the Third Sunday After Pentecost
- 14. A Talk for the Third Sunday After Pentecost, I
- 15. A Word for the Third Sunday After Pentecost
- 16. A Word for the Third Sunday After Pentecost (16)
- 17. A Talk for the Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
- 18. Instruction for the Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
- 19. A Word for the Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
- 20. Instruction for the Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (20)
- 21. A Word for the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
- 22. A Word for the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost (22)
- The Author: Saint John of Kronstadt