HOLY SILENCE

"This world - with its ideas, principles, rules, and in general, with all its order, which has been elevated to the status of an...

"Release your spirit, give freedom to it, and it will flow towards that from which it was taken - towards God." - St. Theophan the...

"Our spirit, as we have seen, is closed and stifled by many coverings. But by its nature, the human spirit is a spectator of the divine...

The days and weeks after Pascha (Easter) are ripe with opportunity to open yourself to God in a new and more complete way. Look to the...

God will sometimes grant a person external manifestations of the Divine Order, which are quite often visions that are revealed while...

"It is remarkable that this grace-given awakening is always accompanied by a startling and by some kind of fright. This startling and...

Even though we can never truly grasp God's brilliant complexity and awestriking luminosity, He is always inviting us onto a pathway of...

"The true Christian life is the grace-given life. Self-made life - however beautiful in appearance it may be and to whatever outward...

"In the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) these moments (cf. "Wake Up to the Light of Christ") are indicated in the following...

"'Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light' (Ephesians 5:14). This comparison of sinners to those who...