Autobiography of Abbess Thaisia

     2024Jul2 

     UPDATE 

Part V of Abbess Thaisia's Autobiography is uploaded to Shared Library

https://app.box.com/s/q86n9mwffp3tm5doyws9oufrso36bwr6

Her contribution to literature includes some of her poems.

Hello folks!  2024Jun23

     To celebrate the feast today of Pentecost, I buckled down to finish making a pdf of the out-of-print book of Abbess Thaisia's Autobiography. 

https://app.box.com/s/vh742733tap3cuch4d99nhzszejtbrsk 

2nd version uploaded 2024Jun24 noon.  1st version had pages mixed up, the first page of chapter 15 came at the end instead of the beginning of the chapter.  I fixed it.  Please alert me to any other problems you find.  There are probably more errors...   joannahigginbotham@runbox.com

It took me all day.  Some of the pages I scanned myself from the book (original 1989 edition) and some pages I took from scans from Orthodox Word magazines (after 1982)  wherein the book was serialized after Fr. Seraphim's death and before it was published.  I included a favorite photo of my own at the end.

     When Platina published this book, they added parts 2,3,4,5.  -- interesting history, funeral orations and some of the abbess' poetry. 

   This pdf I made is only part 1 — the autobiography that St. John of Kronstadt asked her to write.  I included the preface/introduction composed by Platina book, because it is helpful, and by itself nothing harmful.  We can thank Platina for making this book available to us in English.  But — even in those earlier years when Platina was showing evidences that they were no longer on the same path as Fr. Seraphim. 

The OW magazines after Fr. Seraphims death soon started to contain what Fr. Gregory Williams called, "landmines."   

     Starting with issue #144 (which contains a part of the serialization of Abbess Thaisia's Autobiography), Platina starts introducing false elders.  This is just the beginning of their shenanigans.  In this issue Platina introduces false elder Sophrony.  This NEVER would have happened if Fr. Seraphim had still been alive... 

Orthodox Word magazine

Volume Twenty-Five (1989)

     Issue #144, Jan.-Feb. 1989, Vol. 25, No. 1: Icon of St. Silhouan by Terhi Norres, 1981

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

 4 Athonite Patericon: The Discovery of Monk Silhouan by Abbot Herman

11 The Life of Our Father Among the Saints, Silhouan the Athonite, from The Monk of Mount Athos by Archimandrite Sophrony, translated by Rosemary Edmonds

 25 On Saint Silhouan: an Interview with Archimandrite Sophrony, from Paix, translated by Fr. Nicholas Giroux.

 29 Spiritual Counsels: Kindling the Divine Spark — A Reminder to Honorable Nuns, Chapter 10 by St. Theophan the Recluse

 31 Ascetic Theology: Guidance Toward Spiritual Life, Part XI, by Sts. Barsanuphius and John, translated by Fr. Seraphim

 45 Service to Our Holy and God-bearing Father, Saint Silhouan of Mount Athos, translated from French by Fr. Nicholas Giroux

 55 Modern Matericon: Abbess Thaisia, Chapters 19-20

     I've collected some evidence against this pseudo-elder and inserted it at the top of the pdf of the issue in question.  Box might force you to download the file before they let you see it.  I am able to view it in Firefox without downloading it, but not so in Safari.

   The file of this OW magazine is 81MB

  attached caveat updated 2024Jul2

   https://app.box.com/s/hdp4z5313x0x8y6j8dqh6b6272mh7zfa

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