This book contains the first complete English translation fully annotated of the treatise
Concerning Frequent Communion commonly attributed to Sts. Makarios of Corinth and Nikodemos
the Hagiorite the compilers of the Philokalia . This pivotal treatise by two central figures
in the Kollyvades movement which originated on Mount Athos in the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries addresses a somewhat less well-known corollary issue in Orthodox
spirituality that of frequent Communion. The authors discuss the controversy surrounding a
decline in the frequency of Communion in the Christian East the relationship of that
controversy to the Kollyvades movement and the theological arguments in support of frequent
Communion advanced by Makarios and Nikodemos whose joint authorship of the treatise they
endeavor to substantiate.
