SJKP Catalog 1994

Today I scanned an old SJKP catalog from 1994, and I uploaded it to my Shared Library along side the 2007 catalog.

Please look through these catalogs and see if you have any of these books that are now out-of-print and not included in my Shared Library.   I'd like to make the effort to get them scanned and uploaded. 

SJKP Catalog 1994

https://app.box.com/s/80tkmdve5fngai8qeo1f2crcw11ss2jm

SJKP Catalog 2007

https://app.box.com/s/jf7v6iw9rknqclddmc30833cimms9p1h

Do not try to order books ffom this catalog.  

SJKP is now owned by world Orthodoxy.

  The value today of these catalogs is that here we have a list of safe reading materials.    Fr. Gregory never offered any book he did not carefully read himself first.  Also, Fr. Gregory adds a description for each book from a sound Orthodox perspective.

  Flipping through the pages of the 1994 catalog, I first noticed that back then, on page 18,  RUSSIA'S CATACOMB SAINTS was still for sale, at $20.  (Minimum wage was $4.25).

  Another thing I noiced was Fr. Gregory's mini-review of ORTHODOX STUDY BIBLE.   See page 6.  We have to forgive him for that review.  In those days, that book was probably better-than-nothing for many people.  I remember considering it for my teenage daughter, for her home schooling, — but even before I got halfway into it, I had to reject it.  That left me with no study tools, since there were no suitable alternatives.   Happily, today there is a really good study guide out there for sale, in two volumes:

THE ORTHODOX NEW TESTAMENT

https://secure.holyapostlesconvent.org/hacwebstore/viewnormalitem.zul?itemModelNo=ONT1

https://secure.holyapostlesconvent.org/hacwebstore/viewnormalitem.zul?itemModelNo=ONT2

EXCELLENT for home schooling and adult study.

  Another thing I noticed about the 1994 catalog is the somewhat large number of books related to the western rite.  This was certainly because people were aware of St. John's special hope and dream to bring Europeans back to Orthodoxy.   1994 was the year St John was glorified.  But, every attempt to include the western rite in our Orthodox lives has ended up a failure.   (Just look at the goofy Milan synod of our present day.)  For some reason the western rite attracts all the wrong attention, we are better off leaving it be.  Seeking the beauty in the ancient Greek chants is a far more fruitful endeavor.

The last page of the 1994 catalog has a photo of Fr. Gregory's original house.  It was in this house that I first became acquainted with Fr. Gregory and his family, during an agape meal offered after the litrugy. 

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