HOLY SILENCE

For the earliest Christians, the preservation of their personal belief in God, as well as the preservation of the Church itself, was so...

In a clear and compelling way, Matthew records Christ's command that we pick up our cross as He did and follow Him on a path that leads...

The primary purpose of 1 and 2 Timothy, as well as Titus, is to instruct bishops, priests, and deacons how to live. The teaching is...

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...

Let us pray to the Lord. Lord, have mercy. Oh God of our salvation, Son of the living God, Who is borne on the Cherubim, being above all...

"We are aware of the torment that the enemy frequently inflicts upon us visibly or invisibly. But we do not perceive the torment and...

O Almighty Master, Physician of souls and bodies, Who humbleth and raiseth up, Who chasteneth and again healeth: as Thou art merciful, do...

"The enemy knows that prayer is our invisible weapon against him, and so he tries to keep us from praying. He fills us with a desire for...

We are called to union with God and the only way to do this is through silence, stillness, and unceasing prayer. Psalm 50 (51) is a...