HOLY SILENCE

On October 24, the Church commemorates the icon of the Mother of God, Joy of All Who Sorrow (of Moscow). This icon depicts the Theotokos...

For your understanding and use in prayer: John 10:11-18 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The...

For your understanding and use in prayer, the following is a partial selection of verses about the Holy Spirit. “But now I go away to him...

Compassion for Orthodox Christians –whether you are Russian, Greek, Serbian, or something other -- begins with the very nature of God...

"From this it follows that all methods or exercises for kindling and preserving the spirit of zeal can be briefly stated thus: after...

To grow in spirituality, we cannot allow the mind and/or the lips to be external from us. Hesychasm means "to keep stillness." Control...

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

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

We are called to union with God and the only way to do this is through silence, stillness, and unceasing prayer. Psalm 50 (51) is a...

When we think of intercessory prayer, we normally think of it as praying for someone in dire need, which usually means praying for...