Audiobook: Remember Thy First Love

(cf. Rev. 2:4-5) The three stages of the spiritual life in the theology of Saint Sophrony the Athonite

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The path of every man toward God and his relationship with Him is unique. However, because we all share the same human nature, there are certain stages and characteristics common to our spiritual journey. Although Saint Sophrony was reluctant to make generalisations, he formulated a theory of three distinct periods in spiritual life: the period during which God, abundantly pours out His grace upon man, begetting a desire in his heart for His Person and making a covenant with him; the period of the withdrawal of the first grace, during which man is called to prove that he has not forgotten ‘his first love’ (Cf. Rev. 2:4) but faithfully does all he can to regain it; and the third period, when the grace of adoption makes him ‘an heir of God and co-heir with Christ’ (Cf. Rom. 8:17). The Elder presented the second period of spiritual dryness as an authentic spiritual event, an honour and privilege offered from On High to man, so that he may creatively transform the ‘death’ of Godforsakenness into incorruptible divine life.

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AuthorArchimandrite Zacharias Zacharou

LanguageEnglish

FormatAudiobook

Total Listening Time17 hours, 3 minutes

PublisherStavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist

Edition2nd edition

Remember Thy First Love is a graphic description of the three stages in Christian life according to Saint Sophrony the Athonite (1896-1993), disciple of St Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938) and founder of the Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist in Essex, England.

In Remember Thy First Love, which complements The Enlargement of the Heart (2006) and The Hidden Man of the Heart (2008), Archimandrite Zacharias details the nature and purpose of the first grace given at the beginning of the Christian spiritual odyssey, the experience of the apparent withdrawal of grace, and then our final adoption as children, by which we become heirs of God and joint-heirs of Christ (cf. Rom. 8:17).

“The writings of Archimandrite Zacharias evince that inspiration which is born of an undistorted vision of Christ in glory.”

Christopher Veniamin Professor of Patristics Saint Tikhon’s Seminary, USA

Chapter Title	Duration
Opening Credits	00:40
Foreword	13:33
Chapter 1 - Foundations - The Just Shall Live by Faith - From Faith to Faith	59:56
Chapter 2 - The Three Stages of the Spiritual Life	33:09
Chapter 3 - After the Earthquake, the Spirit of Truth	40:28
Chapter 4 - Longing to See the Lord	46:24
Chapter 5 - Seeing Greater Things	38:32
Chapter 6 - Knowing the Gift of God	32:04
Chapter 7 - Entering into a Covenant with God	64:56
Chapter 8 - The Second Stage (Part 1) - Man Comes to Himself	49:26
Chapter 9a- An Invitaion to Overcome Death - The Merciful Chastening of the Lord	89:24
Chapter 9b - Charismatic Despair and Creative Suffering	67:48
Chapter 9c - Standing before God with Charismatic Self-Knowledge	58:39
Chapter 10 - The Self-Denial of the Mother of God	15:15
Chapter 11 - The Second Stage (Part 2) Receive not the Grace of God in Vain - Earthly Life for Infinite Life	74:21
Chapter 12 - Discovering the Deep Heart	41:13
Chapter 13 - The Language of God	27:52
Chapter 14 - Living by a Single Thought	21:49
Chapter 15 - The Struggle with Temptation	14:55
Chapter 16 -Zeal for the House of God	44:25
Chapter 17 -Giving Thanks in All Things	65:40
Chapter 18 - The Third Stage-This Day Have I Begotten Thee - Christs Victory Over Death Man's Inheritance	12:00
Chapter 19 - Knowing the Mystery of the Way of Salvation	15:38
Chapter 20 - Regeneration in the Spirit	09:49
Chapter 21 - The Infalliable Criterion	51:37
Chapter 22 - Charismatic Humility	32:55
Closing Credits	00:43