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Thirty Steps to Heaven: The Ladder of Divine Ascent for All Walks of Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many laypeople have attempted to read the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, but have been frustrated in attempting to apply the lessons of this monastic text to their everyday lives in the world. In Thirty Steps to Heaven, Archimandrite Vassilios interprets the ladder for the ordinary Christian without sacrificing any of its beauty and power. Now you too can accept the...

and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 18:3). Christians renounce the world by living for something other than the world. By living thus, we become the light of the world. This was beautifully expressed in the second century in a letter to Diognetus: For Christians are not distinguished from the rest of humanity by country, language, or custom … while they live in both Greek and barbarian cities, as each one’s lot was cast, and follow the local customs
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