SAINT JOSEPH THE HESYCHAST LIFE – TEACHINGS [1897-1959]

Although this is the third printing of the Life of Saint Joseph the Hesychast, it is however the first since his Glorification on March 9, 2020. The only change we made to the text of our blessed Elder Joseph is the replacement of the title ‘Elder Joseph Hesychast’ with ‘Saint Joseph Hesychast’. We also take this opportunity to announce that because of the several requests we have had to translate the ‘Ten-voiced Trumpet’, a work of the Saint, into a more accessible language for the contemporary Greek, we are planning to publish it in modern Greek as well as in English in the near future.

We humbly wish to the readers of this remarkable book – which transports us, as all who read it will perceive, into the lives of the great ascetics of the desert of the early Christian times – the intercessions of the niptic Saint Joseph the Hesychast to help us in our Christian struggle, so that we also may taste of the grace that he himself experienced; that we not be deprived of divine mercy and that we will be found together with him at the right hand of Christ our true God, Who is “Wonderous in His Saints”.

(Elder Ephraim, Abbot of the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi, PROLOGUE TO THE THIRD PUBLICATION)