Large Print Books
The following books have been issued in limited amounts with greatly enlarged type size for use by the visually handicapped. If necessary, in cases of need, special arrangements can be made to provide the books. The text is the same as the regular editions. The heading of this section has been set in 22 point type to show the size of the type in the Prayer Book.
Prayers of the Orthodox Church
22 point type
0-89981-302-X Price: $5.00
Life of St. Anthony the Great
St. Athanasius the Great
24 point type
0-89981-301-1 Price: $10.00
Eastern Orthodox Saints
18 point type
0-89981-303-8 Price: $5.00
Spiritual Struggles of the Early Ascetics
18 point type
Selections from the Lausiac History
0-89981-303-8 Price: $5.00
Foreign Orders
Surface Mail
Order of $1.50 or less To Canada:
To other Countries:
Add 1 pound for each three books. For books priced over $10.00, calculate 2 books to the pound. [Don't count leaflets.]
Special Rates are available for surface shipments of 11 pounds or more, sent in a direct mail bag.
Airmail is available to most countries. It is very expensive. For rates, inquire.
Payment
In order to save our customers from paying the high fees which are occasionally met with when remitting funds internationally, we will accept payment as follows:
[Please choose the easiest and most economical method.]
-International Post Office money Order
-Check payable in U.S. dollars on a U.S. or Canadian Bank
-Traveler's Cheques
-U.S. Bank Notes
If the above methods prove difficult, we will accept cheques in Canadian dollars drawn on Canadian Banks, and Canadian or U,K. bank notes [bills] at current exchange rates. All bank notes are mailed at sender's risk. We will attempt to work out special arrangements in circumstances that prevent payment by usual means.
U.P.S. Shipments
We normally do not use U.P.S. due to the much higher rates compared to U.S. Mail charges. However, it is available for those who desire it.
Weights:
2 books and a few leaflets - 1 pound
3-5 books - 2 pounds
Each additionaol 3 books - 1 extra pound
U.P.S. does not deliver to post office boxes. Deliveries to businesses [may] have discounted rates.
Eastern Orthodox Books, A Statement
Eastern Orthodox books was established in 1969 by converts to the Orthodox Church. The goal was, and still is, to attempt to provide people with sound spiritual works, and to promote a more widespread knowledge of the Orthodox Church, in keeping with the admonition at the end of the Gospel of St. Matthew.
We published our first four books in 1970. Our books are reprints of spiritual writings, lives of saints, theology, and other works of a timeless nature, that had been out of print and not easily accessible. The spiritual value of a work, rather than its sales potential, has been our guide. All books listed in this catalogue are produced by Eastern Orthodox Books.
The books do not usually include a scholarly introduction and numerous footnotes. Our books are published for the same reason that they were originally written - that is, for the glory of God and to help us in the conquest of our fallen self, and that we may learn more about God and the way of spirituality for the salvation of our soul. Scholarship without faith, humility, and a sincere attempt to do God's will is hollow and spiritually fruitless. It is better to have the Gospel in your heart than all human knowledge in your head. False spirituality is found among those who think they know everything, and believe in nothing.
Some of our books take years to master. Don't read them as you would a novel. It is far better to read less, and let what you read truly influence your life.
The Orthodox Church has maintained the truth given by Christ to the Apostles,and handed down in an unbroken chain. The Church has not changed for the sake of expediency. The theological and moral changes that are to be found in many denominations today do not represent a teaching continued for almost 2000 years. Rather, they represent a spirit alien to what has been held by historic Christianity through the ages. Religion should not be a popularity contest, simply to appeal to the most people. Truth is unchangeable. That which is worthwhile requires a struggle. Getting to heaven is no easy matter; it requires constant struggle and attention.
Easter Orthodox Books would never have lasted the 25 years that it has without the help and support of many people, particularly all the members of the family who have helped through the years, including Margaret, who helps by her prayers in Heaven. There have always been things to print, fold, collate, or type. Collating and folding hundreds of thousands of sheets was particularly done by Elizabeth, Cecelia, and Mary, in the earlier years when they were home. Serge, among many other things, almost single-handedly built our shop building - complete with 22 foot 8x8 beams. Thomas did the artwork, creating line cut icons when needed, paste-up and printing in the early years.
Basil is still printing for us. He began his printing career at age 13, and now owns a successful business: Yes Press, in Brick, New Jersey. His wife, Alexandra, finds time to set type for us. His sister-in-law, Katja, helps too.
Matushka Sylvia types, assembles books, and provides support in countless ways. Alexander is our general jobs person, filling in whenever and wherever needed. All this work has always been done voluntarily without any pay to anyone, for the glory of God.
May God bless all of you, our customers
Rev. Fr. Vladimir Anderson
Subdeacon Basil Anderson 1961-1996
In the time that has elapsed since the initial preparation of this catalog and its final printing, there has been a significant loss in our family. Subdeacon Basil died August 31,1996 while cutting down a tree near his house. He wasn't using proper safety precautions. [His widow, Alexandra, would like others to be made aware of the danger, and thus possibly avoid another accident.] His 35th birthday was on the Feast of the Dormition, three days before his death. He had attended Divine Liturgy and received the Holy Gifts that day. He leaves his wife, Alexandra, and two daughters they had recently adopted in Russia, Svetlana and Lubov.
In his 21 years as a printer, he made available many, many books for the glory of God which otherwise might never have been printed. He printed a large number of Service Books, ranging from 20 pages to major hard bound volumes. For many years he had said that the main thing he wanted to accomplish in life was to publish the Horologian in English. He was able to publish a magnificent hard bound Horologian before his death.
He was always available to everyone for whatever need they had, never putting himself first. He gave of himself without limit. A skilled woodworker, in addition to being a printer, press mechanic and general mechanic, he had spent untold hundreds of volunteer hours finishing the detailing of the church he attended. He also designed and carves a 6 foot wooden cross that combined the Russian 3 bar cross and the Celtic cross of his ethnic origin, for his father's church. He never sought recognition for all that he did.
We can all learn from his death. Live now as if tomorrow may be your last day. It just may be. Don't procrastinate; do it now. Set your goals on eternal things, not temporal ones which soon vanish. Life it too short; don't waste even a day of it.
He was truly a God-oloving man. May his memory be eternal!
FROM ORTHODOX AMERICA
http://www.roca.org/OA/141/141f.htm
Subdeacon Basil Anderson
†August 18/31,1996
The tragic death of subdeacon Basil Anderson sent a shock wave through the Orthodox community. It was a Saturday, three days after the Feast of Dormition and his thirty-fifth birthday. Assisted by his wife Sandi, and with their two adopted daughters watching, he was trimming a tree in their yard when he fell, puncturing a lung. He died before reaching the hospital.
We have been warned that death can come as a thief in the night. Here is a sobering example.
Above all, perhaps, Basil's life was a tribute to the example of his parents, Father Vladimir and Matushka Sylvia.
Dressed typically in jeans and cowboy boots, Basil projected a casual, easy-going attitude that masked his intense commitment to the work of God. He was third in a family of eight children (a younger sister died at the age of seven), and seven years old when the family, sponsored by Father Seraphim Rose, converted from Roman Catholicism to Orthodoxy. His father, a school teacher, launched a publishing business, Eastern Orthodox Books, to promote Orthodox missionary efforts in the English speaking world.
It was a family operation. Basil had ink on his fingers almost before he could read, and his youthful apprenticeship enabled him eventually to go into the printing business for himself. Before doing so, he enrolled in Holy Trinity Seminary, but the Russian-language requirement discouraged him from returning for his second year.
In 1986 he married Alexandra Harvey. They were well-paired: she had been baptized as an infant by St John Maximovitch and grew up with a mission church in her back yard. The couple moved to New Jersey where Basil opened a print shop in partnership with his older brother, whom he later bought out. For Basil, printing was not just a job; it was a means of serving the Church. He donated hours of labor to print Orthodox and Church-related materials at cost or below. On these terms he himself solicited the printing of The Orthodox Family, and many others were treated to the same generous discounts. Basil's greatest contribution lay in his collaboration with Fr Laurence of Holy Trinity Monastery, whose translations of services Basil printed and published (and personally financed) in handsome, hardcover editions: The Divine Liturgy, The All-night Vigil for Choir and Laity, The Horologion, Priest's Handbook (Sluzhebnik) in Slavonic and English; as well as numerous smaller booklets: the Canons for Holy Communion, the Funeral Service, and others which have significantly enhanced Orthodox worship in English.
It was evident that Basil had been raised with a strong Christian work ethic. When we would call to ask if he could do a job for us, the answer was invariably, "No problem." What this really meant was working regularly after hours and taking work home. And he extended himself in other directions, contributing countless hours of carpentry work to his parish church of St Alexander Nevsky in Lakewood and setting up a bookstore there. His spiritual father, Father Valery Lukianov, characterized Basil as having "a golden heart and golden hands." He was very capable -- whether repairing a machine or making a kiot, and, like his parents, he was compulsively generous. He was especially fond of children. One year he and Alexandra encouraged patrons of the print shop to donate gifts for the needy children of the Annunciation Community in Uganda, which they then packed and shipped.
The last two years of Basil's life were especially eventful. In January 1995, he and Alexandra flew to Russia to adopt two girls, sisters. In June, Basil was tonsured reader and ordained subdeacon. In February 1996 his wife was diagnosed with cancer. She had not yet finished her course of chemo-therapy when Basil died.
Most of us express ourselves in words -- too many words. Basil expressed himself by doing. Here was a true laborer, whose good deeds, in a short life span, paved his way into the eternal kingdom.
This is a difficult period of adjustment, emotionally and financially, for Basil's family. He contributed so much to the Church. May we reciprocate by praying for the repose of God's departed servant, Subdeacon Basil, and for the health and salvation of Alexandra, Svetlana and Lubov. …
