December 20, 2018 297 2 St. Theophan the Recluse on How Devil Enters Our Heart The Satan seized Judas and taught him how to betray the Lord; Judas agreed and betrayed Jesus. The Satan entered Judas’s heart because the…
December 3, 2018 133 0 St. Theophan the Recluse on the Further Coming of Jesus Christ Having said that the Son of man shall come like the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto…
November 12, 2018 209 0 St. Theophan the Recluse on Why Love Cannot Exist without Humility “Take up the sword of humility and meekness, hold it always in your hand, and mercilessly cut off the head of our chief foe.”…
November 6, 2018 158 0 Praying Both with Mind and Body: St. Theophan the Recluse on Prayer The Lord gave us a general prayer for all people, which combines all our needs, spiritual and bodily, internal and external, eternal and temporary…
October 11, 2018 153 0 St. Theophan the Recluse on Prayer during the All-Night Vigil He went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God (Luke 6:12). That’s the foundation and the beginning…
July 3, 2018 1541 0 15 Quotes of Guidance from St. Theophan the Recluse 1. If we compare our nature to copper, then copper in conjunction with silver is still the same nature but one that is…
May 2, 2018 71 0 St. Theophan the Recluse on Mid-Pentecost On Mid-Pentecost we can hear the Lord appealing to us: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink” (John 7:37). If…
December 1, 2017 218 0 St. Theophan the Recluse on Prayer and Spiritual Vulnerability One who prays is like a bird, soaring high in the air, neither to be captured by the net, nor reached by an arrow….
August 15, 2023 400 1 Holy Martyr, Son of the Righteous. Saint Sergiy Mechev This piece presents the life of the Hieromartyr Sergiy Mechev, son of the Holy Venerable Alexis Mechev, presbyter of Moscow. Saint Sergiy has not…
July 18, 2023 453 0 Father Methodius: a Macedonian Turned Most Hospitable Hieromonk on Valaam Island This charismatic man with a southern temperament chose the way of monasticism with the blessing of his honourable grandfather. The wondrous ways of Divine…