 Welcome to St. Innocent Press!St. Innocent Press was founded in January, 2006 in Middlebury, Indiana with the blessing of His Grace, Bishop Peter of Cleveland (ROCOR) and with the goal of filling some of the gaps in English-language Orthodox Literature. As a convert to Orthodoxy, a father of two young children, a parish priest, and a graduate of a Russian-language seminary, it was clear to me that not only did many good books written in Russian need to be translated, but that the Orthodox Christian culture which permeates Russia (and Serbia, and Greece, and Georgia, and...) needed to be sown among English-speaking believers. We chose St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow to be our heavenly protector due to his extraordinary missionary zeal. By his prayers, may the spiritual fruit of this press be bountiful! Our first offering, St. Seraphim's Beatitudes, is directed to young readers. This book took well over a year to produce; we pray that it will be of spiritual benefit to those who read it! The many lavish drawings are the work of Paul Drozdowski, a professional iconographer and illustrator. Paul and I met while we were both studying at Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, New York. Click here to see some of his wonderful icons Our second book is a printed Directory of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. This detailed listing of the parishes and clergy of our Church is based on the online directory. Purchases of the print version of the directory help support this resource for ROCOR. God willing, our next offering, an English translation of St. Innocent's Instructions to Missionaries, will be available in 2009. We hope to produce another illustrated children's book as well. The focus of St. Innocent Press will be on books for youth as well as translations of spiritual literature from Russian. The bulk of my labors are devoted to serving my flock
at Holy Virgin Protection
Orthodox Church in Goshen, Indiana where I am rector (which
is part of the reason it took so long to produce our first book!).
A small parish, we struggle daily to uphold our Orthodox Christian
faith in Northern Indiana. Click
here to learn more about our parish. I am also acting rector
of Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Without
the support of my wife, Anya, and two young children, James and
Alexandra, St. Innocent Press would still be a dream. May God help
us all to fulfill His command to Go forth and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit! Sincerely in Christ, |
By the prayers of St. Innocent, may the Lord bless you! |