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These Christian poems of meditation
help every reader anticipate the joyful goal at the end of the journey.

The Stations of the Cross are way-points along Jesus' path of sacrifice, suffering, and death. We go with Him even to the Tomb. Afterward, there is a garden, and a gardener who is the ascending Christ, our Lord and God.

The Mysteries of the Rosary help us to relive His life, from before its beginning in Nazareth to His destiny in the eternal Kingdom. By prayerful attentiveness we come to share more fully in the life, works, death, and resurrection of the Son of Man.


Pavel Chichikov

is a Washington DC-based poet and photographer. He has written for both the secular and the Catholic press on issues as diverse as Russian nuclear weapons systems, Olympic athletes, and miracles. Mysteries and Stations in the Manner of Ignatius is his third book of poems. He is also poetry editor of the popular web site Catholic Exchange.
Kaufmann Publishing
a welcome event:
new poems by Pavel Chichikov
“Good religious poetry—poetry that is truly religious and truly poetic—is a rare and precious commodity nowadays. The spirit of the age works against it. Which in itself makes the appearance of Pavel Chichikov's Mysteries and Stations
in the Manner of Ignatius 
a welcome event.

 But so, more important, does the quality of these poems. As meditations, whose manner resembles the Ignatian technique called composition of place, they mine the Mysteries of the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross in order to bring forth a luminous iconography of redemption. A sensibility in the tradition of Dickinson and Donne, an eye for vivid imagery, and an ear for the telling phrase meet here in verse that is as much to be prayed as read.”

      Russell Shaw,
eminent Catholic columnist



“Pavel Chichikov sees into the
mystery of things. He is gifted with what
Gerard Manley Hopkins called instress, those moments when the mysterious
veil that covers reality is
momentarily lifted to reveal the
fingerprints of God in the heart of
His Creation. It is, therefore, a
luminous joy to see his poetic gifts
poured out as an oblation to the
wondrous mysteries of the Rosary."

Joseph Pearce, 
distinguished Catholic
critic and biographer



“St. Augustine said, ‘He who sings well, prays twice.’  Pavel Chichikov's
poetry sings and takes us into regions of the Spirit we could never have
found ourselves.  It is a gift and
a grace of the Holy One."

Mark P. Shea,
noted Catholic commentator



“Pavel Chichikov is a master poet who mines the richness of the spiritual
and the material, who captures the dynamic movements in the concert of
life. His poetry is a skillful tribute to Creation and Creation's God.”

William Ferguson,
editor, St. Linus Review
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