“A Word on Prayer” by Konstantin Ikonom, now offered to readers in Russian translation, was pronounced by the great preacher on July 20, 1822 in the Greek Church in Odessa. Despite such a long-standing origin of this speech, we think that the desire to introduce Orthodox Russia to the wonderful work of the one-faith church speaker, nicknamed by his contemporaries the New Chrysostom, will find sufficient justification, both in the wonderful, eternally youthful and living images of a powerful and expressive language, and and in the depth and clarity of thought, the breadth and comprehensiveness of the view, which distinguishes everything that came from the pen and mouth of the author of “Words on Prayer.” Source: .php?tu003d5690201