To those who hunger for the bread of wisdom, this book will be a spiritual table, full of innumerable heavenly delicacies; and if they eat of it, they shall not die, but live forever. And to those who thirst for the sweet and nectar-filled water of the holy troparion, it will be a spring of flowing honey and rich in waters, from which flows the spiritual brook of ambrosia, which raises us from the dead. And, after all, to those who long to penetrate the spiritual and divine meanings of the royal feasts, this book is a blooming, sweet-smelling paradise, full of fragrant herbs: nard, saffron, oregano, and cinnamon; full of sweet fruits: dates, pomegranates, walnuts, and hard-shelled dates; and full of many heavenly gifts, which enlighten the mind, delight the heart, and cheer the whole inner man. (St. Nikodemus of the Holy Mountain)

St. Nikodemus is a great saint especially for monastic life, for living a mystical life, for expressing the apophatic theology through the word, so that man can leap to the beyond and to travel and see the unseen and touch the untouchable. He is a “hierophant” who opens before us the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven and all that the saints of the Church have felt, have written and have left us. […] He has seen all things that are in heaven and on earth, enabling us also to see and understand “the hidden mysteries of the ages” (Eph. 3:9), all things which the wise and the rulers cannot understand, but the little children can. (Geronda Emilianos Simonopetritus)

Endowed with a memory out of the ordinary, always emboldened by the restless curiosity for knowledge, but also enveloped by the generosity to share with all the patristic treasures explored for decades among the bulk of books and manuscripts in the Athonite libraries, St. Nikodemus of the Holy Mountain, already reached full spiritual and theological maturity, writes towards the end of his life his most important work, the Eortodromion. Aware of the scriptural, patristic and philocalic richness hidden beneath the words of ecclesiastical hymnography, but also of the lack of an exegesis capable of bringing it to light from the locked coffers of concise and hermetic expression, characteristic of hymnographers, he proceeds to the interpretation of the melodic canons written by John Damaschin and Cosmas the Melodious for the Eucharist of the Feasts of the Emperor, hymns that represent the theological quintessence of Orthodox hymnography.

Going through them tropar by tropar, St. Nikodemus offers out of the abundance of his knowledge a summa theologica, written in a simple language, but with a superior content, to all categories of readers who listen to these canons sung year after year.
 
The canons of the feasts of the saints in this book are an indispensable tool for deepening in the spirit of the services, being a help for those who seek to participate in the knowledge of the sacraments in the church. The comprehensive vision of St. Nikodemus of the Holy Mountain makes this work a true introductory library to the mysteries of Orthodox worship. The graphic conditions make this work unique in the Romanian ecclesiastical space. Thanks to the donations of many donors, this edition is distributed at a reduced price.

This book appears for the first time in Romanian, in a deluxe edition: two volumes, sewn with thread (vol. 1: 728 pages/vol. 2: 704 pages); hardback covers, gold-polished; miniatures painted exclusively for this edition; text printed in two colors (red and black) on chamois paper; on the inside of the covers (forcet) is painted St. Nikodemus of the Holy Mountain with the two hymnographers, Cosmas the Melodious and John Damaschin; the book also contains two signs. The edition is not bilingual.