HOLY SILENCE

"Having been a sinful woman, You became through repentance a Bride of Christ. Having attained angelic life, You defeated demons with the...

"Being actively united with this entire world, every sinner falls into its broad nets, wraps himself in them, and is so deeply buried...

"...this whirling is intensified and complicated a thousand times because the sinner is not alone. There is a whole world full of other...

Please pray for us most-loving Mother; and intercede for us, though we are unworthy of your care. We implore you to help us give our...

"So, a sinner persists incessantly in his troubles and anxieties, and in his search for excessive knowledge, many possessions, and...

"The emptiness of the heart - which has deprived itself of real delight in the One who is everything - generates a thirst for many and...

"The emptiness of the will - which has deprived itself of the One who is everything - produces numerous desires" striving to possess many...

"The emptiness of the mind - which has forgotten about the One who is everything - gives birth to a concern for excessive knowledge: for...

"He has fallen away from God, who is the fullness of everything. He is empty in himself. The only thing that remains is to spread himself...

"A man becomes a bottomless abyss; he tries hard to fill this abyss, but he cannot. That is why for his whole life he is in sweat, toil,...