Saint John of Kronstadt

Instructions, Words, and Talks for Sunday Days, Issue IX: The Sixth to Fifteenth Sundays after Pentecost

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

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Source edition: Слова, поучения и беседы на недельные дни (с 6 по 15 по Пятидесятнице). Выпуск IX (azbyka.ru; from the pre-revolutionary Russian edition)

Cover art: Morning in a Pine Forest (1889) — Ivan Shishkin (Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)

The second of three volumes of Sunday sermons, following the Gospel readings from the sixth through the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost -- the feeding of the five thousand, Christ walking on the water, the rich young man, and the parable of the vineyard -- with a recurring call to set one's heart on eternal rather than earthly treasure.