{"product_id":"a-ray-of-light","title":"A Ray of Light: Instructions on Piety, the Passions, and the End Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Ray of Light\u003c\/em\u003e  discourses a perennial topic of fascination and concern for all Christians—the End Times. The reader is exhorted to be spiritually prepared at all times for the return of Christ by understanding the pious practices of the Orthodox Christian Church as founded on the Scriptures and interpreted by the teaching of the Fathers. To this discourse are added essays on the veneration of Holy Icons, the power of Holy Relics, and the kingdom of grace on earth: the Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis classic text of the founder of Holy Trinity Monastery has been freshly typeset and lightly edited and now includes a short biography of the author in order to preserve and spread Father Panteleimon’s legacy “unto generation and generation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 A Ray of Light, How to Leave the Darkness of Death, The Perception of Truth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 What Will be the Status of the Incomplete Blessedness of Righteous Souls and the Incomplete Torture of Sinful Souls?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 The Fate in the Future Life of Sinful People, Unrepentant of Their Sins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 The Incorruptibility and Miraculous Powers of Holy Relics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 The Veneration of Holy Icons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Christ’s Holy Church\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 The Characteristics of People before the End of the World. A Prophecy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Apostasy in the Last Days of the World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Signs by which the Nearness of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ Can Be Judged\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 10 The Coming of Antichrist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 11 The Birth of Antichrist and His Acceptance by the Jews as the True Messiah\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Antichrist Foretold\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 13 The Actions and Name of the Antichrist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Seal of Antichrist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Miracles of Antichrist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 16 The Disparagement of Divine Law by Antichrist; Persecutions and Tortures of those Confessing Christ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 17 The Construction by Antichrist of his Altar in the Temple of Jerusalem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 18 The Terrible State of the World and All Mankind during the Reign of Antichrist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 19 Posthumous Prophecies of our Holy Father Nilus the Myrrh-streamer of Athos\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 20 The Word of our Holy Father Ephraim the Syrian on the Coming of Antichrist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix: A Short Biography of Archimandrite Panteleimon (Nizhnik)\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Luxe Regalia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46331915829444,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/5428\/3716\/files\/a-ray-of-light-instructions-on-piety-the-passions-and-the-end-times-1114814.webp?v=1783054745","url":"https:\/\/luxeregalia.com\/products\/a-ray-of-light","provider":"Luxe Regalia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}