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Good News, Bad News
- De: Alexandra T. Chakos
- Narrado por: Constantino Garcia
- Duración: 1 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
Eight-year-old Steven desperately wants to win the top prize in his school’s fundraising campaign—a shiny new BMX bike. The good news is that just selling lots of boxes of cheese and sausage will help him win. The bad news? He’s willing to break rules and bend the truth to make his dream come true.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Easy read
- De Mary Rocos en 01-06-25
- Good News, Bad News
- De: Alexandra T. Chakos
- Narrado por: Constantino Garcia
Good News, Bad News is good news!
Revisado: 06-29-23
Good News, Bad News is a wonderful story about honesty and generosity, individuality and strengthening the nuclear family. We listened to the audio book version, and found it to be a perfectly timed story of integrity and brotherhood. I think this book is an important read because it is filled with realistic scenarios and biblical parallels that apply to the lives of my 5 and 7 yr old sons. What do we do when no one is looking? Is it better to disobey and win, or be obedient to what is right and trust God for all we need? This story makes biblical virtues tangible in an age appropriate way, and I would highly recommend this book to any Orthodox friends with children between the ages of 5-10. As a bonus for the audio version, the book was read aloud by a boy of that same age range; my boys enjoyed listening to a story read by their peer.
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Memory Eternal
- Living with Grief as Orthodox Christians
- De: Sarah Byrne-Martelli
- Narrado por: Sarah Byrne-Martelli
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 9
Losing someone we love is never easy, but the Orthodox Church provides a wealth of resources that help us to bear it. Chaplain and bereavement coordinator Sarah Byrne-Martelli draws on these theological, scriptural, and liturgical resources, as well as the collected experience of a variety of people undergoing grief and loss, to provide a kind of road map to the grieving process. Included in the book is a guide to an eight-week bereavement curriculum that can be used in a group or on one’s own.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Over all, this is an engaging and helpful book.
- De Nicole Cavender en 11-02-22
- Memory Eternal
- Living with Grief as Orthodox Christians
- De: Sarah Byrne-Martelli
- Narrado por: Sarah Byrne-Martelli
‘Memory Eternal’ helped me healthily grieve
Revisado: 10-02-22
Memory Eternal: Living with Grief as Orthodox Christians
As I near the one year anniversary of my father’s death, I was given the opportunity to review the audiobook version of Sarah Byrne-Martelli’s Memory Eternal: Living with Grief as Orthodox Christians. My grief at the one year mark has been what feels like a ‘two steps forward, one step back’ process; very discouraging. “I should be farther along in the process,” I tell myself on a particularly hard morning. These days, tears don’t flow easily, which has left me very edgy, numb, and down at times. I feel changed, hoping one day I will wake up and be my naive self again, believing in goodness, and not seeing death everywhere I look. Little would I know that simply starting this book would bring about tiny miracles in my life.
When I began to listen to this book, I began to feel the walls come down; not in a violent way, but instead brick by brick, gently. It was affirming, calming, and gave me an incredible amount of peace. I felt supported in the grief process. The stories of other grieving Orthodox christians made me feel less alone in my pain. The tools provided on how to reach out for help, how to pray, how to function on hard days was invaluable. I also felt validated that my father’s presence is still very near, and that is where the tiny miracles began.
I have a photo of my dad on my fridge, holding my son. The photo is taken from the perspective of standing behind him, over his shoulder. Before he passed, I viewed this photo as being centered on my baby boy, and now all I see are my daddy’s soft, freshly shaved cheeks , and whose aftershave I can still smell. Before reading the book, I would pass that photo and miss him. Now, I stop and kiss his cheek and tell him I love him. Sometimes I imagine his cheek has one day stubble and he playfully rubs it against mine as he would do often. It’s so painful to imagine, but it is also equally joyful - the mystery of it all!
Another miracle since saying yes to the next phase of grief is deciding to write this review on my laptop instead of my phone as would be usual to me. As I opened my computer, I saw the note my dad wrote about me on my 32nd birthday sticking out of the cover of my laptop. After my dad passed away, my siblings and I drove to his home to go through his possessions. All I wanted was something from him, a note, a sign, anything. Within 10 minutes of being there, that note was found. It was a surprise and reminder of my dad’s love for me, and that I do feel him near. The fact that it was brought to my attention again tonight as I write this review is a beautiful kiss from my God to me.
The final miracle I will share here are the tears that fall as I type. To know that we have a sweet God who cares so deeply for us that He will meet us in our grief and walk hand in hand with us as we go through it; that grief is not always linear, that it doesn’t have to look a certain way, and that He is present. He gives us tears to show love, and I did and do love my daddy.
I recently attended an Orthodox funeral for a leader in our Church, Metropolitan Herman, and it wasn’t what I was expecting. The Metropolitan was laid in the center of the church, surrounded by dozens of priests and clergy, adorned not in black, but instead in white. It was a delicate balance of grief and loss, married with hope and life. They proclaimed joyfully words of resurrection given to us by Christ, and those words made death a little less scary and daunting. They celebrated his life and also grieved him.
I am grateful for the Orthodox Church and it’s perspective on death and how we say, “Christ is risen!” as well as “memory eternal!” To keep his memory eternal, to keep him alive, to re-member him and put him back together… this is an important part of being an Orthodox Christian. My faith supports my grief. This book supports my faith. Pick up a copy, start a grief group (this book contains a guide for leading grief groups in Orthodox communities), reach out to someone who has suffered a loss.
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Seven Holy Women
- Conversations with Saints and Friends
- De: Melinda Johnson, Laura S. Jansson, Georgia Briggs, y otros
- Narrado por: Melinda Johnson, Georgia Briggs, Katherine Hyde, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Written by a group of friends, Seven Holy Women is a one-of-a-kind journey into the lives of seven women saints. Each section of the book includes a story from one saint’s life told vividly and imaginatively in the second person, additional information about the saint to give her context, a reflection on ways the writer, listener, and saint intersect on their journeys, personal surveys for the listener and a friend to complete, and a journal prompt that encourages the listener to explore and document her encounter with themes from the saint’s life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging & relatable to a general audience -
- De Joshua J Eller en 01-15-24
- Seven Holy Women
- Conversations with Saints and Friends
- De: Melinda Johnson, Laura S. Jansson, Georgia Briggs, Molly Sabourin, Anna Neill, Katherine Bolger Hyde, Melissa Naasko, Summer Kinard
- Narrado por: Melinda Johnson, Georgia Briggs, Katherine Hyde, Laura Jansson, Kristina Wenger, Melissa Naasko, Anna Neill, Molly Sabourin
Beautiful, healing, refreshing.
Revisado: 07-08-22
I thought that reading ‘Seven Holy Women’ was going to be one thing, but it was another thing entirely. I braced myself for practical and historical descriptions of the lives of particular women saints, but instead was greeted with beautiful, poetic interpretations of their struggles and godly lives. The artistic telling of each story made me feel like I was standing in a calm flowing river on a beautiful sunny day - I wrapped myself around their words and felt like I was walking with each of the saints intend of folding laundry and packing boxes. After each story, the authors shared a brief history of their lives, followed by how they find that saint in their own lives. I shed tears as I stood in the chaos of our life that is in great transition, while hearing an author describe her own state of upheaval at her home, and how God was in the midst of that unknown. I was able to see the dragon crouching in the darkened corner of my room as another author described hers vulnerably. I felt encouraged and renewed in my faith through hearing not only the lives of the saints, but also the response to those lives from the authors. It was easy to start and stop between stories, which made it ideal for me as a mother of three young children. I would highly recommend the audio book version of ‘Seven Holy Women’ to Orthodox or Catholic women (we share many of these saints) who want to know more about the lives of lesser known women saints, and who want a relatively quick listen.
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Arise O God
- The Gospel of Christ’s Defeat of Demons, Sin, and Death
- De: Andrew Stephen Damick
- Narrado por: Andrew Stephen Damick
- Duración: 2 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 257
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 256
The gospel of Jesus Christ is not about what Jesus can do for your life. It is not even the answer to the question, “How can I be saved?” It is the declaration of a victory. In his coming to earth, his suffering, and his Resurrection, Christ conquered demons, sin, and death. In Arise, O God, author and podcaster Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick introduces us to the spiritual war that Christ won by his victory, how we are caught in that war’s cosmic crossfire, what the true content of the gospel is—and how we are to respond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clarity
- De Genevi en 08-31-21
- Arise O God
- The Gospel of Christ’s Defeat of Demons, Sin, and Death
- De: Andrew Stephen Damick
- Narrado por: Andrew Stephen Damick
Arise O God inspires!
Revisado: 09-30-21
Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick’s book, Arise O God, was an approachable, concise, and INTERESTING listen. If you’ve had the privilege of listening to his podcasts, it had a similar feeling, but the info was more concise (which I greatly appreciated). As a busy stay at home mother of three and homeschool teacher, I appreciated having a book to listen to as I went about my day that encouraged my faith and helped me make connections between ancient tradition that was familiar but was lacking the full contextual knowledge. Fr. Andrew helped to bridge the gap from knowledge to wonder, and give an appreciation for Christ and the work of His apostles. I highly recommend this book for those inquiring, those who want to strengthen their faith, or those wanting to know more about church history. I also recommend this book in audiobook form for those who may be busy and want to tackle a book in a few hours time. I left this book encouraged and I wasn’t ready for it to end, and in my opinion that’s the best way to leave a book.
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All Is Well
- De: Albert S. Rossi
- Narrado por: Albert S. Rossi
- Duración: 3 h y 38 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
This deceptively small and simple book holds a great secret - the secret to achieving peace of mind in Christ. Beloved writer and teacher Dr. Al Rossi uses stories from his own life to illustrate the basic principles of watchfulness and prayer. The final chapter is a moving tribute to Dr. Rossi's close friend of many years, Fr. Tom Hopko, whose Fifty-Five Maxims are also helpful in learning to say at all times, "All is well".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Frustrated Listener
- De Melanie Rentsch en 04-09-21
- All Is Well
- De: Albert S. Rossi
- Narrado por: Albert S. Rossi
‘All is well’ leaves one peaceful
Revisado: 10-07-20
I am grateful that in a time of great hatred, when we look at people as expendable and not dynamic, when division is around every corner, that a book like this exists.
Dr. Rossi composes a series of discussions on topics that can veer Christians away from the peaceful truth we have in Christ; All Is Well. No matter the circumstances, the feelings, the state of ourselves... all is well. I appreciate Dr. Rossi’s humility, care, and love for the human condition and how he shares each topic with a heart full of compassion and empathy. I highly recommend this book, especially in audible form if you, like me, have limited free time to sit and devour a good book. I cherished being able to listen to his words as I engaged in a hobby (an activity encouraged in the book), and felt as though I was sitting on a couch as he spoke words of life over me. I am grateful for the opportunity to review this book and encourage you to read it in any form you can.
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Painting Angels
- De: Melinda Johnson
- Narrado por: Melinda Johnson
- Duración: 1 h y 38 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
What happens when you can’t get away from the person who drives you craziest? Sam and Macrina are about to find out. Stuck working together to help the nuns, Sam and Macrina come up with a thousand reasons to disagree. Sam is too rude. Macrina is too bossy. Summer at the monastery will be miserable if they can’t find some common ground. With the help of three friendly nuns, a runaway bunny, and Saucer the trusty corgi, Macrina and Sam discover a big secret that helps put them on the road toward peace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Painting Angels touched my heart
- De D Thompson en 09-22-20
- Painting Angels
- De: Melinda Johnson
- Narrado por: Melinda Johnson
Painting Angels touched my heart
Revisado: 09-22-20
I didn’t really expect a children’s book to move me like this one did. I decided to review the audio book version of ‘Painting Angels’ because my son (and all of us, really) loved the first two books in the series. For a long time now, my son has been asking when the newest “little boy, the dog, and the monastery” book was going to arrive on our doorsteps. He loves melinda’s cute voices, her sweet stories of a boy and his pup, and the little adventures the children get into together at the monastery. This story delivered all those things, and then some. I wasn’t expecting the ‘and then some’ to bring me to tears.
My favorite parts of this book were the focus and character development of Macrina and Sam, and the morals that we witnessed both Macrina and Sam learn in different ways. Without spoiling the story for you, I will say that “love is the only rule” is something I have to repeat at the top of my lungs when life with little children and a pandemic and homeschooling get hard. It’s poignant in and out of the monastery, in every moment, especially now. I am grateful for God speaking to us through this sweet story, and I hope it touches your heart. I highly recommend this series, and this sweet third installment.
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The Barn and the Book
- De: Melinda Johnson
- Narrado por: Melinda Johnson
- Duración: 1 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
Sam wants to know if animals (especially Saucer!) can speak at midnight on Christmas Eve. Grace and Macrina are competing to write a story, and Elias is losing his patience. Meanwhile, Sister Anna hopes God will rescue her from teaching Sunday school. Christmas is coming, but hearts are full of secrets and frustrations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Listening for the Whole Family
- De CLC en 12-27-19
- The Barn and the Book
- De: Melinda Johnson
- Narrado por: Melinda Johnson
The Barn and the Book, a sweet sequel to Barn and the Book
Revisado: 11-21-19
My almost 4 year old and I have loved listening to Melinda Johnson’s reading of “The Barn and the Book.” Her extremely adorable inflection and perfectly emphasized punctuation was a joy to listen to on a long drive. My preschooler followed along very easily and continues to ask to listen to “the story about the boy, the dog and the monastery.” I think this book I’m general is a great addition to your child’s library, and is a wonderful audio book for children of (almost) all ages. Many moments of laughter are sure to follow!
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