September 11, 2019 The Desert Fathers: Praying without Ceasing Once certain monks of the kind called Euchitae‚ that is‚ the Men of Prayer, came to the abbot Lucius in Enna: and the old…
September 11, 2019 Fornication Leads To Murder Fornication leads to murder. The first time I read this statement was, I think, in the life of a certain saint who after early…
September 10, 2019 Career and Unrequited Love. Top 5 Dumbest Reasons to Go to Monastery The higher you climb, the worse the fall. Monasticism is not one of the Church Sacraments technically, but in essence it is: when one…
September 10, 2019 Elder Joseph the Hesychast: The Fragrance of Prayer Once when Geronda and I were outside with our prayer-ropes and he was telling me about prayer and his experiences of looking after monks…
September 10, 2019 Grumbling Is Very Dangerous for Our Well Being Have you noticed how some people are always grumbling? I have a good friend who always begins his story about his latest trip by…
September 9, 2019 Fyodor Dostoevsky: 25 Basic Rules of Life “To love a man means seeing him as God intended him to be.” Compassion is the most important and, perhaps, the only law of…
September 9, 2019 The Deadly Sins: Bodily Sloth, Intellectual Sloth, Moral Sloth “I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding; and there it was, all…
September 7, 2019 Theotokos: the Bridge by Which God Descended So, the Lord Jesus gives us this possibility to unite with God and return to the primary purpose which God ordained for man. Therefore…
September 7, 2019 Man Is the Conductor of Love Man must live in the presence of God, so that our ways can be right. Due to the fact that the Man desired to…
September 7, 2019 Why Celebrate Christian Holidays that Aren’t in the Bible? Aquick perusal of the major feast days on Orthodox Church’s liturgical calendar will show that many of those great feasts are not mentioned in…
September 6, 2019 Metropolitan Peter: The Rock on Which Moscow Stands The secret of Moscow rising above other glorious and ancient Russian cities does not lie in its advantageous location at the crossroads of trade…
September 6, 2019 Forgiveness in the Christian Family The bonding cement of a Christian community, whether it be a parish or the family, is the ability and the readiness of each of…
