Autobiography of Abbess Thaisia

OUT OF PRINT BOOK

     UPDATE    2024Dec28

This book can still be found.  It is selling for $90—$200 on Amazon.

     

 

This is the final update: Complete and uploaded to Shared Library

See folder named, "Lives of Saints and Elders"
https://app.box.com/s/lyxjbk62vb4f3jq5zkmkabrebambexs9

     St. John of Kronstadt asked the Abbess to write her autobiography.   She wrote it as an obedience.

     The autiobiography was serialized in Platina's Orthodox Word magaine in 1987.  I scanned some of the chapters from the magazine rather than from the book to save myself time.

     When Platina published the autobiography in book form, 1989, they added parts II, III, IV, V.  -- interesting history, funeral orations and some of the abbess' poetry. 

 

     We can thank Platina for making this book available to us in English.  But — even in those earlier years, Platina was showing evidence that they were no longer on the same path as Fr. Seraphim. 

Platina's OW magazines should be differentiated from Fr. Seraphim's OW magazines.  After Fr. Seraphim's repose, Platina's magazines 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 been there... 

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.  I do not have Chrome.

   The file of this OW magazine is 81MB

  attached caveat updated 2024Jul2

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

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