Manna from Athos

This book contains the first complete English translation, fully annotated, of the treatise <I>Concerning Frequent Communion</I>, commonly attributed to Sts. Makarios of Corinth and Nikodemos the Hagiorite, the compilers of the <I>Philokalia</I>. This pivotal treatise, by two central figures in the <I>Kollyvades</I> movement, which originated on Mount Athos in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, addresses a somewhat less well-known corollary issue in Orthodox spirituality, that of frequent Communion. The authors discuss the controversy surrounding a decline in the frequency of Communion in the Christian East, the relationship of that controversy to the <I>Kollyvades</I> movement, and the theological arguments in support of frequent Communion advanced by Makarios and Nikodemos, whose joint authorship of the treatise they endeavor to substantiate.