The First Fruits of Prayer

A Forty-Day Journal Through the Canon of St. Andrew

By: Frederica Mathewes-Green

Narrated by: Frederica Mathewes-Green

Join Frederica Mathewes-Green on a guided retreat through an ancient Orthodox text. Regardless of your denominational background, First Fruits of Prayer will bring to life the prayer experience of first millennium Christianity through immersion in this poetic hymn, an extraordinarily beautiful work that is still chanted by Christians around the world each Lent. It weaves together Old and New Testament scriptures with prayers of hope and repentance and offers ancient ways of seeing Christ that still feel new today.

©2006 Frederica Mathewes-Green (P)2019 Frederica Mathewes-Green

Goodness and Mercy

So whole and healing and strong and beautiful. Her voice captured so perfectly for me what St Andrew wrote and Christ God wanted me to hear.

A fantastic devotional for Great Lent

I enjoy everything that Frederica writes, and The First Fruits of Prayer is no acception. I really enjoy the commentary after each section and how it is separated in to sections for each day. I

Wonderful for Lent

The reader and the content was wonderful. Ibam glad I bought on audio. The text may be good to write down one's thoughts, but I just used my prayer journal.

Perfect audio retreat

This audio retreat is moving insightful and profound. Saint Andrew speaks deeply into our present chaos. And the narration is sensitive to the mood of the text and able to provide nuance to the meaning.