Blog Cited in Recent Book: "The Prayer Rule of the Theotokos"

 


I have had little time to work on translation or writing projects recently, though I do have a few in progress, including a new Bérulle volume and a translation that I aim to have published in an academic journal.  However, I wanted to share some information I recently discovered.

Over a decade ago, on the former home of my blog, θησαυρος της εκκλησιας, I posted a discussion of the Prayer Rule of the Theotokos, popularized by St. Seraphim Zevzdinsky.  Drawing from various sources, I put together a couple variants of the Prayer Rule in a PDF booklet (available from my website).  

It has always been one of the more popular pages on my blogs, and it still lists high in searches for "prayer rule of the Theotokos."  (Even higher, at least on Google, are the Internet Archive and Scribd mirrors of the PDF.)  So I was pleased, though not too surprised, to see it cited as a source in a recent book on the Prayer Rule, published by Eastern Christian Publications.  I haven't had a chance to peruse the full volume, but it looks like a good way to have a nicely-printed version of the Prayer Rule, along with some additional material.

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