The Life and Conduct of the Holy and Blessed Teacher Synkletike

St. Athanasios the Great
Translated and with annotations by Monk Chrysostomos

Date of Publication:

2015

Number of Pages:

82

Binding:

perfect binding

Dimensions:

8⅜" × 5⁷⁄₁₆" × ¼"

International Standard Book Number:

978‒1‒938943‒04‒1

Library of Congress Control Number:

2015944602

$8.95



Introduction
1–3. Author’s prefatory words
4–10. Early life
11–20. Monasticism
21. The beginning of her teachings
22. On love
23–29. On chastity and fornication
30–35. On poverty
36. On avarice
37–39. On concealment of one’s virtue
40–42. On sorrow
43–44. On the loftiness of the monastic calling
45–46. On evil thoughts
47–48. On attentiveness
49–51. On conceit
52–55. On despair and pride
56–59. On humility
60–61. On toil for virtue
62. On anger
63–65. On rancor and calumny
66–67. On guarding the senses
68–70. On disdain
71–76. On love, poverty, and almsgiving
77–78. On secular life and monasticism
79. On teaching
80. On tonsure and renunciation
81–88. On fate and discernment
89. On spiritual “accounting”
90–91. On the future life
92–93. On concern for the soul
94. On remaining in one’s place of repentance
95. On fasting
96. On desire, pleasure, and sorrow as the source of all vice
97. On different forms of monasticism
98–99. Concerning patience amid illnesses
100–101. On moderation
102. On asceticism amid illness
103. The conclusion of her teachings
104–107. The beginning of her illness
108–109. Teachings on carelessness
110–113. The Saint’s end
Index