#Asceticism

Jan 18, 20191 min read

St. John the Baptist, Pray for Us

St. John the Baptist, Prophet and Forerunner of Christ, pray for us that we too may become burning and shining lights (John 5:35). You...

Sep 7, 20153 min read

Asceticism and the Response to Secularism

Christians have seemed to embrace the prevailing culture instead of converting it. That's why it's so important to have a conversion of...

Sep 4, 20153 min read

Martyrdom as the Example for Asceticism

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

Sep 2, 20153 min read

Asceticism: The Inner Mission of the Church

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...

Aug 20, 20155 min read

The Christian Motive for Monasticism

As Archpriest Georges Florovsky explains, Jesus modeled all of the actions and qualities that the earliest monks tried to emulate. In a...

Aug 19, 20155 min read

Objections to Monasticism

In the middle of the fourth century, primarily male Egyptian peasants were leaving their village homes to settle in the desert where they...

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