HOLY SILENCE

The happiness we perceive in this life is never permanent. It fleets and it fools. It is most often dependent on the actions of others....

"Do not fritter away the time given you for repentance. Do not rivet your eyes to the earth on which you are a momentary actor, on which...

"Our mind is so darkened by the fall that unless we force ourselves to remember death we can completely forget about it. When we forget...

"The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with...

"The body at work but the thought with God - such should be the state of a true Christian. "We should set in order our inner state as...

"May the Lord help you to be fully alive and to preserve sobriety. But do not forget the chief thing, to unite the attention and mind...

"Be concentrated within yourself and try not to leave the heart, for the Lord is there. Seek this state and work for it. When you have...

The Transfiguration of Jesus can be found in Matthew 17:1–8, Mark 9:2–8, Luke 9:28–36, John 1:14, and 2 Peter 1:16–18. In these accounts,...

Forgive me, O Lord, for wanting to hear you. Forgive me, O Lord, for desiring to see you. Forgive me, O Lord, for yearning to feel you....

Our modern culture seems to have an obsession with the macabre, but a serious aversion to understanding the dynamic link between life and...