HOLY SILENCE

Intercede for me and pray for my spiritual sons and daughters so that we may have a stable foundation of contemplative prayer and a ministry of healing the afflicted. Mary, my dear mother in heaven, I am deeply, deeply grateful for your protection and eternally humbled by my priesthood. Please keep me close and give me strength to walk with everyone who comes for confession and spiritual guidance. An icon representing the Feast of the Protection of the Theotokos.

There is never enough sky for the contemplative And no mountain tall enough for the hesychast. There is never enough sand in the desert...

Lead me on the path to the caves where contemplation thrives on the breath of the Spirit and illumination is fed by the fire of the...