HOLY SILENCE

The Great Canon of St. Andrew, Bishop of Crete, is a long hymn used over the first few days of Great Lent. St. Andrew himself composed...

How, O Lord, do we draw closer to you? How do we teach others to grow in you? How do we fight their fear and anguish? Teach us to pray...

You are an interior being. Your body is God's temple. Your mind was made for God's wisdom, not mankind's reason. You were made to seek...

"The first step is that of purest prayer. From this there comes a warmth of heart, And then a strange, a holy energy, Then tears wrung...

St. Gregory of Nyssa, good shepherd of Cappadocia and teacher of mystical theology, pray that we give ourselves over to a true search for...

"Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed" (Luke 5:16). Do as He did. Don't wait. Reality is found in the eternal darkness....

"Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast,...

There's only one new year's resolution worth making. That is: resolve to pray by using more silence and stillness. You will not be good...

Except during the few days between Christmas and the new year, the world demands great speed from us at work, at home, at school, on the...

The approaching holidays can be an excellent opportunity to sit down, take stock, think about the good things that have occurred during...