Nov 30, 2012

Just as one assays the quality of gold or silver in a furnace, so also the souls of men are tested through temptations.

Oct 27, 2012

The first time I saw Brother Lawrence was upon the 3rd of August, 1666...

Jul 27, 2012

Beware of temptations from this world and from worldly people; beware of hidden inner temptations that come from the spirit of indifference and carelessness in prayer, from the waning of Christian love.

Apr 23, 2012

In paradise, anger was blessed. The Lord God sowed it in man to give him an instrument for violently repulsing from himself every trick of the devil that aims to separate him from the true God...

Mar 29, 2012

When the sea is calm, the fisherman's eyes can see the movements of the fish deep down...

Feb 4, 2012

God does not come and go – your attention does.

Jan 12, 2012

Good news! Holy Transfiguraton Monastery has published a new edition of The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian. I’d like to describe the differences between the two editions...

Oct 20, 2011

These three spiritual principles, or disciplines, are really a summation of the Philokalia, the collection of Orthodox Christian spiritual wisdom. And they are disciplines every single one of us can practice, no matter where we are in life...

Aug 31, 2011

Check our intention to see if we are as interested in others getting their needs met as our own...

Mar 27, 2011

Originally, askesis just meant athletic training: "Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us."