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March 2019

March 11, 2019

Finding Out Who We Are

We are on a journey – a journey towards our true homeland, the kingdom of...

March 04, 2019

The Beginning of the Great Fast (Lent)

The Great Fast, Lent, is not only the time set aside to prepare the faithful...

January 2019

January 17, 2019

“Know Thyself And Know God” A Reflection Based Upon the Letters of St. Anthony the Great

The world was created by God to be good by nature. “And God saw everything...

December 2018

December 14, 2018

The Spirit of Virginity

In his exile, St. John Chrysostom wrote letters to his friend and companion, the deaconess...

July 2018

July 05, 2018

Drink And Be Drunk!

Come and drink of the grapes of God’s wrath. Pressed down and beaten for our...

March 2018

March 12, 2018

Mystical Theology of Dionysius: Transcendental God-Talk. Chapter One. Section Three. Part Two.

He seems to me to have comprehended this supernaturally, that the good Cause of all...

March 05, 2018

Mystical Theology of Dionysius: Transcendental God-Talk. Chapter One. Section Three. Part One.

SECTION III. Thus, then, the divine Bartholomew says that Theology is much and least, and...

February 2018

February 08, 2018

Fasting, A Tool for Our Own Good

Consume. Consume this, consume that. Consume. Consume all you want. And then consume some more...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

When We Trip And Fall In The Pilgrimage Of Life, God Is There Ready To Help

One of the normative phases of spiritual development is found when a spiritual pilgrim goes...

November 2017

November 22, 2017

Legalistic Condemnation Must Give Way To The Humble Spirit Of Love

Abba Anthony predicted that this Abba Ammonas would make progress in the fear of God....

November 07, 2017

Mercy, Not Supernatural Signs, Is What We Need

Jesus warned us that we should not go to him seeking signs because it is...

September 2017

September 27, 2017

We Must Transcend Ourselves

And he said this, "If he is able to, a monk ought to tell his...

September 11, 2017

To Tame The Wild Beast Within

He also said, "Obedience with abstinence gives men power over wild beasts."[1] There are many...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

Forge the Virtue You Need, Not the One Others Say You Must Seek

Abba Anthony said, "Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going...

August 18, 2017

We Must Have Times For Community and Times For Silence

Abba Anthony once went to visit Abba Amoun in Mount Nitria and when they met,...

August 07, 2017

Fear And The Love For God

He also said, "Always have the fear of God before your eyes. Remember him who...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Those Who Love God Will Never Disrespect His Creation

In traditional Japanese beliefs and practices, there is a belief in a sacred power, kami,...

July 14, 2017

Humility Protects Us From Spiritual Deception

Some brothers came to find Abba Anthony to tell him about the visions they were...

July 03, 2017

The Universal Tao On Avarice

C.S. Lewis, following principles of “natural theology,” suggested that there was a normative, objective morality...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Bodily Control

Abba Anthony said, "I believe that the body possesses a natural movement, to which it...

June 20, 2017

In Silence, Love Remains

Silence. In our active, daily lives, we should find time to slow down and embrace...

June 16, 2017

Do Not Become Like A Fish Out Of Water

He also said, "Just as fish die if they stay too long out of water,...

June 02, 2017

Pentecost

We have come to the time of Pentecost, the time in which we remember Christ...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Christians Should Humbly Learn From The Mosaic Tradition

The brethren came to Abba Anthony and laid before him a passage from Leviticus. The...

May 22, 2017

Orpheus And The Prophetic Power Of Music

There might be no figure who is as great, indeed, as important for the development...

May 19, 2017

Sunday Of The Man Born Blind

This Sunday, the Byzantine tradition in its ongoing cycle of Paschal Sundays remembers the Man...

May 12, 2017

The Sunday Of The Samaritan Woman

For the Fifth Sunday of Pascha, the Byzantine tradition lifts up St. Photina, the Samaritan...

May 05, 2017

The Sunday Of The Paralytic Man

Following the feast of the resurrection, and the witness of the resurrection represented by the...

May 03, 2017

Charity and Avarice: The Roots Of Good and Evil

We must discern what would lead us away from God, that is, what causes us...

May 01, 2017

Even In Silence, There Will Be Temptation

He said also, "He who wishes to live in solitude in the desert is delivered...

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