HOLY SILENCE

"The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with...

"Today the faithful celebrate the feast with joy illumined by your coming, O Mother of God. Beholding your pure image we fervently cry to...

"Prayer, attention, and work are safe ways to tame your thoughts and your passions in order to follow God's will." - A monk from Mount...

"What we human beings achieve in our lives, is like the conquest of a mountain. The human soul cleanses itself through the effort of...

"The body at work but the thought with God - such should be the state of a true Christian. "We should set in order our inner state as...

"We cannot limit ourselves to the active life alone, but should combine it with intellectual occupations, so that with their help we can...

"Do not overlook the fact that health does not depend on food alone, but above all on inner peace. Life in God, cutting us off from...

"Woe betide us if He finds us overcharged with the cares and sorrows of this life! For who will be able to bear His anger, who will bear...

"Before Thy Cross we bow down in worship, O Master, and Thy holy Resurrection we glorify (3x). Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and...

"Of course, every good deed done for Christ's sake gives us the grace of the Holy Spirit, but prayer gives us this grace most of all, for...