Wisdom from Elder Leonid of Optina Disciple: Is mental prayer granted to everyone? Elder Leonid: Whomever the Lord visits with grievous trial, with sorrow or with the deprivation of […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
Tips from the Monastery: Keeping an Icon under your Pillow
Tips from the Monastery: Keeping an Icon under your Pillow I bought a new pillow the other day, three days ago to be exact. I was excited because I […]
Holy sayings
ON MENTORSHIP The mentor who recedes to a mentee that speaks back at him improperly, he allows his mentee to wonder on this topic and prepares him to violate […]
Training obedience
Abba Agathon loved very much Abba Alexander, because he was very ascetic, humble, extremely gentle and of mild nature. One day all his disciples where working next to the river […]
Holy sayings
LISTENING When someone has a problem, you must listen to him carefully. The entire time that he is talking do not show him that you got tired, because […]
Holy sayings
It is the light The continuous study of the Holy Scriptures is the light of our soul and it protect us from the passions. St. Isaak the Syrian […]
Holy sayings
Proper leadership When you are in charge, the one who doesn’t listen to you and obey you with your first word, don’t pressure and quarrel with him, and […]
Holy sayings
TEACHING Truly wise is not the one who teaches with words, but the one who teaches with his example. Abbas Iperehios THE TEACHER The true teacher is the […]
Guidance
You are asked to follow without hypocrisy. He would deceive his bishop who can see, would also disrespect the Lord who is invisible. I pray you work to fulfill […]
Circumcision of the Lord
People who were not just anybody but of great excellence in every respect, such as Holy Augustine of Hippo or Saint Basil and all the members of his family, […]