Saint John of the Ladder is honored by Holy Church as a great ascetic and author of the renowned spiritual book called THE LADDER, from which he is […]
My Prayer Ropes Were Full of Myrrh and Fragrance
Last summer I went with friends to Mount Athos and we stayed for two days in Megisti Lavra, the oldest and first in the order of the monasteries of […]
What God wants to tell us
God comes near us, God speaks to us. It is a very big thing to be able to hear God’s voice, no matter how it may reach us […]
Fasting
Fasting is the food of the soul. Indeed, just as food can make the body fat, so fasting strengthens the soul, makes it lighter, elevates it spiritually and […]
The God’s mercy
Man knows he has to act according to God’s command. Yet, he fails and breaks the command. On account of this violation, guilt is immediately created within […]
Holy Martyr King Edward of England
Edward was the oldest son of English King Edgar, who reigned from the year 957. Edgar, like his famous great-grandfather King Alfred the Great, was remembered as […]
Holy Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, First Bishop of Britain
Aristobulus was one of the Seventy Apostles,* and a follower of the Holy Apostle Paul, with whom he preached the gospel of Christ in various places, and […]
Prayer and Fasting
Prayer, my children, and fasting: these are good for the soul of man. And the prophet Elijah was just another human being, a "like-minded" man, but by his […]
I can lift my cross with His help
The Lord is a living God, who governs all, who sorts everything out according to his merciful plan, who loves us, who has taken us under His wing, who […]
It presupposes
The true Worship of the Creator results in the love of creatures. Who can properly and truly love man if he has not been incandescent with the God-human […]