The following is an excerpt from Reflections of a Humble Heart: A Fifteenth Century Text on the Spiritual Life. (pgs 59-61)

"Among the Byzantine manuscripts in the Vatican library there is this portion of the notes of a certain monk Basil concerning his discussions with an elder whose name did not reach us. Either the monk Basil, who recorded the words of the elder of blessed memory, assumed that everyone knew about whom he was speaking, or the elder's name was mentioned in earlier notes that have been lost. It is supposed that the blessed elder was a renowned ascetic of one of the monasteries near Constantinople, and that he lived in the early fifteenth century."

Themes include the fall of Adam, God's love for man, the second coming of Jesus Christ, and Christian virtues.

Published by Nikodemos Orthodox Publication Society.

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