Today we are opening one of the most practical and urgently relevant collections of modern Orthodox spiritual counsel: Spiritual Counsels, Volume II: Spiritual Awakening by Saint Paisios of Mount Athos. This volume gathers extensive first-hand dialogues in which the Elder speaks with clarity, warmth, and prophetic concern about the spiritual condition of our times. He calls believers to wake up from indifference, to fight the good fight with devoutness, to cultivate spiritual bravery, to depend entirely upon Heaven, and to take up the spiritual weapons God has given us.