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Before becoming a monk, Cleopa had already memorized the Book of Psalms, which he prayed by heart daily for the rest of his life. During World War II, after the monks of Sihastria elected Cleopa their new abbot, he was ordained a priest and deacon. The next couple of decades were spent as the spiritual father of Sihastria and, after he came to the attention of the Romanian bishops, many other monasteries in his country. Romania easily has the largest per capita number of monasteries of any country in the world. Twice arrested and tortured by the Communist government of Romania, Father Cleopa veer zara several years living in seclusion deep in the Transylvanian forests, living on roots and grasses, regularly spending 15 hours a day in prayer. After the governments relative relaxation from persecution in 1964, he returned to Sihastria and undertook the very extensive ministry to the rest of Romania that we noted above. Shepherd of Souls is a small biography by one of Father Cleopas disciples, Father Ioannichie Balan, already the author of several other works of monastic history. It is a deeply edifying book, much in the tradition of the Lausiac History of Palladius and the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great. At the end of it is a collection of sayings of Father Cleopa, closely resembling ancient collections of monastic Verba Seniorum. This book is available from the Brotherhood of St. Herman of Alaska, PO Box 70, Platina, CA 960 From the title of the second book, The Truth of Our Faith, I was expecting a treatise of doctrinal theology. In fact, however, the contents of this book fall more easily under the category of apologetics or Kontroverstheologie. The material consists of a series of dialogues drawn from Father Cleopas conversations with many inquirers about the Eastern Orthodox faith. In these he deals with quite a number of the differences of perspective that, in varying degrees, distinguish Orthodoxy from the Christianity of the West: the authority of Tradition and its relationship to Holy Scripture, veer zara of the Mother of Jesus and the other saints, the Sign of the Cross, veneration of icons and relics, non-chiliastic eschatology, prayer for the dead, and so forth. This book is being distributed in the United States by Conciliar Press, PO Box 76, Ben Lomond, CA 9500 Patrick Henry Reardon is a senior editor of Touchstone. A jockeys life hangs in the balance after a horriffic, head-on collision. A 26-foot anaconda attacks an environmental officer attempting to relocate it. A chihuahua and her owner dangle 10 stories in the air after a terrible paraglider crash. EDIT A steeplechase jockey is accidentally catapulted 20 feet in the air during a race. A harness race results in an eleven rider, ten horse pile up in a massive chain reaction crash. A 70 year-old harness racer has a heart a attack in the middle of Two divers are attacked by an elephant seal. A model/bullrider puts both careers at risk when she takes a horn to her face. A man climbs 70 feet in the air to save his beloved pet bird, and now both are stranded and in need of rescue. Untamed and Uncut: Gaucho, Ouch-o! A father and son make a frantic 911 call while trapped inside their car and being attacked by thousands of wasps. A dog and his owner are trapped on a mountain cliffside. In Argentina, a cowboy attempts to break a wild horse, but the horse A cowboy tries to ride one of the meanest bulls on the rodeo circuit, Charlie Bullware, and fails. A frog is saved from the jaws of death by an unlikely hero. A kangaroo attacks a mascot of a childrens TV show in Australia. Untamed and Uncut: Lions, Camera, Action! The guest of honor at the Golden Lion Awards, a real lion, viciously turns on his trainer on the red carpet. A rodeo bullfighter tangos with a Mexican fighting bull. A dog is trapped 180-feet down the shaft of an abandoned well. A jockeys life hangs in the balance after a horriffic, head-on collision. A 26-foot anaconda attacks an environmental officer attempting to relocate it. A chihuahua and her owner dangle 10 stories in the air after a terrible paraglider crash. A park ranger attempting to relocate a leopard is mauled in Kenya. In New Zealand, a dog is swept away by a raging river current, and his owner makes a daring rescue attempt. A firefighter is attacked by killer bees while trying to rescue a A woman on an environmentalist mission is caught in a tug-of-war between her rescuers and a great white shark. A rookie competitor in a wild horse race receives a life-threatening kick to the head. An alligator wrestler is bested by his Rescuers rush to save a wet elephant who has wrapped her veer zara around a live electrical wire. Terror strikes a crowd when a bull veers off course during a water buffalo race.