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Eastern Christian Publications (ECPubs for short) has a free app where you can get the Prayer and Saint of the day, Vespers and the Hours (Third, Sixth & Ninth). Look up “ECPubs app” on your phone. I have the Android version and use it daily.
 
I’ve been looking for that version by Helen Bacovin! Where did you find it?
 
Maybe a commentary would help? “I Burned for Your Peace” by Peter Kreeft is an excellent one, he unpackages the important stuff, and is great so far!
 
It´s on my list 😉 I love Dostojewskij so much. It was Crime and Punishment from him that brought me finally to my faith and let me understand so much.
 
This is a great idea. I was looking for an app for some time, but didn´t found something in german, only russian and greek - I simply forgot searching in english 😃
 
I always book search first eBay -
Then Abe used books - then Albris used books.
I actually bought a hard back copy - that came in a decorated protection container.

This book - caused me to do ‘repeaters’

If I discover a scripture that I HAVE TO incorporate -
I repeat it - for an hour or two - out loud, if possible.
“ Whoever calls his brother a fool, he himself. is in danger of hellfire “
And then, maybe, one scripture leads to another…
or - I just make up my own sentence - that branches off that scripture.
 
Dostoevsky was a devout Orthodox Christian so his faith pretty much bled into his writing.
 
Entschuldigung, das war nicht richtig! Sie sind Deutsch, nicht Polieren.
 
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Kein Problem, es ist schön zu sehen, dass hier so viele Menschen aus vielen Ländern zusammen kommen 🙂
…and no matter where I´m from, I found luckily most book suggestions in german/english at amazon. Nowdays it´s easy to find good translations online 🙂
 
St. Basil the Great. Period. Full Stop.

Sometimes his works can be hard to find, but they greatly influenced both Eastern and Western Christianity. Much of the modern mindset of Religious Life in the Western Church is in some way derived from Basil’s Aesceticon. It was also Basil who compliled the Philokalia which the spirituality of The Way of a Pilgrim which @Seagull mentioned (also an excellent book, by the way) is based on.
 
“The Inner Life” by Thomas Kempis. It’s great for evaluating yourself and how you really behave as a Christian. It was written in the 1400s in Latin but the translation is easy enough to follow.
 
That is a different Philokalia, that was a compilation of the heretical Bishop Origen’s writings that I assume do not have influence from his heretical views that have been since condemned in councils. The Philokalia you are referring to in “The Way of a Pilgrim” was compiled by St. Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain in the 1700s.
 
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