Seraphim Rose Book order (chronological)

Lumina albă conţine toate culorile. Noi nu le observăm. Numai prisma poate să le descompună și să le facă să apară. Prisma aceasta ar putea fi sufletul ascultătorului. Muzica noastră va ajunge într-o zi la sfârșit. Trebuie să trăim cu conștiinţa acestui fapt. Poate că va veni o clipă în care nici chiar cel mai mare artist nu va mai voi sau nu va mai avea ce să creeze. Și poate că în acea clipă își va preţui și mai mult creaţia, căci va fi trecut dincolo de munca lui. Polifonia ideală este rugăciunea neîncetată, rugăciunea lui Iisus. Acestui contrapunct „ideal” îi este cu putinţă, în toate și pretutindeni, să creeze relaţii ideale.

When Fr. Seraphim found out that the early Western Father, Blessed Augustine of Hippo, was being attacked in contemporary Eastern Orthodox circles, then he--himself a Western convert to Orthodoxy--rose in his defense. This book is the outcome. Fr. Seraphim said he wrote it in the hope that it would help remove Augustine as a scapegoat for today's academic theologians, and thus "help free us all to see his and our own weaknesses in a little closer light--for his weaknesses, to a surprising degree, are indeed close to our own." After discussing Blessed Augustine's strengths and weaknesses, Fr. Seraphim examines the opinions of other Holy Fathers concerning him. "His main benefit to us today," he writes, "is probably precisely as a Father of Orthodox piety something with which he was filled to overflowing. Here he is one with the simple Orthodox faithful, as well as with all the Holy Fathers of East and West who, whatever their various failings and differences in theoretical points of doctrine, had a single deeply Christian heart and soul. It is this that makes him unquestionably an Orthodox Father." This new edition of The Place of Blessed Augustine in the Orthodox Church contains letters written by Fr. Seraphim concerning Augustine, passages from Augustine's Confessions which Fr. Seraphim found especially moving, and an Orthodox service to Blessed Augustine, commissioned by St. John Maximovitch.