#StTheophantheRecluse 3/5

Jun 7, 20192 min read

God Helps Get Rid of Self-Indulgence

"In order to awaken a sinner from his sleep, the divine saving-grace directs all its power towards the destruction of the main support...

May 31, 20191 min read

Release Your Spirit

"Release your spirit, give freedom to it, and it will flow towards that from which it was taken - towards God." - St. Theophan the...

May 29, 20191 min read

Inward Presentation of Divine Reality

"Our spirit, as we have seen, is closed and stifled by many coverings. But by its nature, the human spirit is a spectator of the divine...

May 27, 20192 min read

Visible Presentation of Divine Reality 4

"Sometimes one is permitted to feel in a palpable way an invisible power which acts amidst the visible powers and phenomena, but which is...

May 24, 20191 min read

Visible Presentation of Divine Reality 3

"Sometimes the other world itself, and particularly its order and main principles, is vividly portrayed in some striking manner in the...

May 22, 20191 min read

Visible Presentation of Divine Reality 2

"Sometimes the Lord wishes to send somebody from the other world: either in reality or in dreams, in their own appearance or under some...

May 20, 20191 min read

Visible Presentation of Divine Reality 1

"The merciful Lord reveals to the consciousness of the converting sinner His divine world, in which our spirit is appointed to dwell....

May 13, 20191 min read

Fear Can Accompany Awakening

"It is remarkable that this grace-given awakening is always accompanied by a startling and by some kind of fright. This startling and...

May 10, 20191 min read

Awakening to the One, True Order

"When a grace-given awakening takes place in the consciousness of a man... there is an instantaneous destruction of the whole order of...

May 3, 20191 min read

A Self-Made Life is Not Christian

"The true Christian life is the grace-given life. Self-made life - however beautiful in appearance it may be and to whatever outward...

HOLY SILENCE