Our featured publication is The Friend of God: An Illustrated Manual of the Jesus Prayer. The belief is this: The practice of the Jesus Prayer can be the most valuable tool for anyone to become closer to God, to practice a Christianity that is not “dry” and “dull,” but is a veritable map toward a vivified and grace-filled salvation, which is which is deified life with God.
We invite you to explore the web site to learn more and we hope and pray that you enjoy the publications written by Daniel Rogich and that these resources help you learn and grow closer to God.
Daniel M. Rogich was born in Canton, Ohio, into a working class family, and was first introduced to the practice of the Jesus Prayer as a nine-year-old church camper, by a beloved priest, Fr. Mateja Matejić. Daniel felt his first calling and subsequent foray into spiritual literature and theology in college, when he attended Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio. Yet he first went there for another reason: as a scholarship athlete in basketball, he became incredibly successful, an All-American, and was inducted in the university’s Athletic Hall of Fame. It was there also that he began reading spiritual literature, such as the Philokalia and The Way of a Pilgrim, formative texts on the Jesus Prayer, as well as books by Thomas Merton, such as Seeds of Contemplation and Seven Story Mountain. He also studied ancient Greek and was headed, after graduation, to study theology at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York.
