Los Angeles, December 18, 2025
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St. George Press, an Orthodox publishing company specializing in works from the Romanian tradition, has released a new work from Mother Siluana (Vlad) that serves as a follow-up and companion to the very popular, God, Where is the Wound?
Theology of the Ordinary: Finding God in the Turmoil of Everyday Life offers Mother Siluana’s teachings on rediscovering our true identity in God’s image through attention to small things, healing relationships, and the transformative practice of forgiveness as a path out of confusion, depression, and spiritual emptiness.
The press describes the book:
This book is as a wonderful companion to the much-loved God, Where Is the Wound? Once again, Mother Siluana speaks directly to the people of our time: confused and wounded, yet created in God’s image and “born for joy.”
Her profound understanding does not come from theory, but from her own struggle, from within the struggle itself, in which so many of us recognize ourselves. Haven’t we been waiting for someone like her all along, for someone to embrace our wounds and tell us that indeed, God loves us no matter where we are?
In the first conference, “The Theology of Small Things,” Mother Siluana tells us that our individual problems have common roots. We forgot who we are. We identify with our wounds, and not with the image of our Creator. “Our mind is ill and filled with confusion, wrong opinions, and beliefs”. Our attention is scattered. We are seduced by psychological and spiritual trends that encourage positivity and emotional bliss, yet remain detached from the true spiritual life. God, once known as a Person who never leaves our side, is insidiously reshaped according to the precepts of society and our ever-changing desires. Thus, our soul becomes fragmented. We pretend to be who we are not. We run away from our own lives. We fall into depression and despair. Some even contemplate suicide, while others seek oblivion in pleasures of all sorts.
And yet, beneath this turmoil, the thirst for God remains. Mother Siluana knows this thirst. She shows us the way to rediscover our identity, meaning, and zest for life. She invites us to quench our thirst with the living water of her words.
Theology of the Ordinary: Finding God in the Turmoil of Everyday Life can be ordered from St. George Press, as well as several other books by Mother Siluana.
The Press also offers several other publications representing the Romanian Orthodox tradition, including works by the recently canonized St. Sofian of Antim.
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