Elder Nektary of Optina
/ I. M. Kontzevitch
Language: Αγγλικά ; of original work, Ρωσικά.Country: Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής.Publication: Platina, California : Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1998Description: 515 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 093863559X (pbk.).Series: The Optina Elders Series, 5Dewey: 271.819092 (Edition 23rd)Old Classification: Δ5 (Μοναχοί)Abstract: Elder Nektary (1853-1928) was the last Elder to function as such at Optina. He was in Optina when it was forcibly closed by the communists in 1923, and spent his remaining years in exile from his spiritual home. He lived through a time of persecution worse than any other in the thousand-year history of the Russian Orthodox Church. At this time of immeasurable sorrow for Christian believers, God gave Elder Nektary to Russia as both a consoler of souls and a voice of prophecy. Marked by simplicity, childlikeness, spontaneity and creativity, Elder Nektary radiated joy to the thousands of suffering souls who came to him. Having reached the summit of spiritual life, deification, he was beheld in Uncreated Light by his disciple, Fr. Adrian (Archbishop Andrew) Rymarenko. He passed on his Optina inheritance to many worthy disciples, who later transmitted it to America. Among these were Archbishop Andrew, Bishop Nektary (Kontzevitch), and the author I. M. Kontzevitch. Through the eyewitness acc... (more)Bibliography: Includes glossary, bibliography, and index.Subject - Topical Name: μοναχοί | στάρτσι | βιογραφία Subject - Geographical Name: Ρωσία Item type:
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General Notes: Translated from original Russian sources.
Notes Pertaining to Title and Statement of Responsibility: Translation of: Иеросхимонах Нектарий, последний оптинский старец / Концевич И. М. - Jordanville (N. Y.) : Holy Trinity monastery, 1953
Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note: Includes glossary, bibliography, and index.
Summary or Abstract: Elder Nektary (1853-1928) was the last Elder to function as such at Optina. He was in Optina when it was forcibly closed by the communists in 1923, and spent his remaining years in exile from his spiritual home. He lived through a time of persecution worse than any other in the thousand-year history of the Russian Orthodox Church. At this time of immeasurable sorrow for Christian believers, God gave Elder Nektary to Russia as both a consoler of souls and a voice of prophecy.
Marked by simplicity, childlikeness, spontaneity and creativity, Elder Nektary radiated joy to the thousands of suffering souls who came to him. Having reached the summit of spiritual life, deification, he was beheld in Uncreated Light by his disciple, Fr. Adrian (Archbishop Andrew) Rymarenko. He passed on his Optina inheritance to many worthy disciples, who later transmitted it to America. Among these were Archbishop Andrew, Bishop Nektary (Kontzevitch), and the author I. M. Kontzevitch.
Through the eyewitness accounts of Elder Nektary’s life contained in these pages, this “spiritual grandfather” of Orthodoxy in America can help to ground Orthodox converts in sober spirituality, rooted in unfeigned humility and repentance, which marks all true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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