Poustinia Format:Paperback - $19.95 Created as a Christmas card

Created as a Christmas card for Madonna House in the late 1960s by the famous Canadian painter

[These] “stories are true in that their message is true

with excerpts from a wide selection of her writings

” and she is a born storyteller

as the holy fools of Catherine’s Russian childhood were called

Poustinia Format:Paperback - $19.95 Created as a Christmas card50 years of Poustinia Poustinia is the word for desert in Russian. In Eastern Christian spirituality, it refers to a place one goes to encounter, in silence, solitude, and prayer, the God who dwells within the human heart. Now, in this best selling spiritual classic, Catherine Doherty presents the concept of poustinia to Western Christians hungry for the reality of Christ in his Word and in their hearts Published 50 years ago (1975) and now part of