As Archpriest Georges Florovsky explains, Jesus modeled all of the actions and qualities that the earliest monks tried to emulate. In a...

In the middle of the fourth century, primarily male Egyptian peasants were leaving their village homes to settle in the desert where they...

Fasting and perseverance are exceedingly important both to a life of deep prayer that can lead to a mystical encounter with God, and a...

St. Anthony the Great (ca. 251–356) is the father of all monks. While he was neither the first monk nor the author of a rule for monks,...