The Dawn of the Eternal

by Zacharias Zacharou

If man lives without the awareness of eternity, the past is nothing but time already lost, a chain of failures and wrong choices, while the present is almost non-existent, since before we can even define it, it has already passed. As for the future, it is uncertain and does not belong to man. His whole being is tormented by a state of prolonged, even endless, anguish. And yet the time he has been given on earth is the time of the Lord’s goodness, ‘the accepted time’, during which His lovingkindness is revealed before us as a prelude to eternity. By its very nature, liturgical time is bathed in the light of eternity.

432 pages, Hardcover

Published June 1, 2026

About the author

See also: Ζαχαρίας Ζάχαρου and Zaharia Zaharou


Father Zacharias is a disciple of Saint Sophrony the Athonite - the Father founder of the Community of Saint John the Baptist, Essex, UK. He studied theology at the Orthodox Theological Institute of Saint Sergius in Paris and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has lived all his monastic life in the monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Essex where he serves as a spiritual Father and minister of the word of God to his brethren and the people that come to him.