Download or read book An Inner Step Toward God written by April French and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Father Alexander Men (1935-1990), the Russian Orthodox priest and popular spiritual teacher who was publicly martyred in 1990 in the former USSR, prayer is “the flight of the heart toward God.” This work, available for the first time in English, is a collection of his writings, lectures, and sermons on prayer. You will discover both ancient and modern wisdom, and you will see how one Eastern Orthodox priest taught his parishioners to pray.