About the book: 2011 / Many people often ask questions: why certain troubles happen to them, why do they are sorrows sent? The book “The Royal Way of the Cross of the Lord” answers these questions. It analyzes the numerous sorrows that every person encounters on the path of life. The Holy Fathers comprehensively revealed the moral essence of sorrows for people who bear their cross, and gave a comprehensive answer as to why they are sent to a person, how to bear his cross and what benefits it brings. The teaching of the holy fathers on the role of sorrows is explained in the book in the form of a dialogue between the Angel and Stavrophila, in which the Angel’s speeches are the patristic teaching on sorrows, and the questions that Stavrophila asks are people’s questions about how to endure sorrows without cowardice, grumbling and falls.