Distraction
“Sons of the world see distraction as innocent, but the Holy Fathers see it as the beginning of all evil. One of the greatest ascetics of old, St. Poemen the Great, teaches that the beginning of evil is distraction.” (St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, Archbishop Averky Taushev) “Quiet, for me, seemed an impossible quality to cultivate without a sense of time as ample. I wanted our lives to be, not crammed with endless activity or entertainment or things, but ordered, roomy, so that
Home
“Christianity demands that the family be a small church…Our home is a little church, and creating the right sort of context and...
Participation
“…our modern culture believes that relationships with other people are merely psychological phenomena – they are all in our head. There...
Confusion
“Babel, the place where the tower was built, means “gate of God.” The word is also a homonym of the Hebrew verb balal, “to produce...
Force
“According to St. John Chrysostom, the violent who take the Kingdom by force are those who have such earnest desire for Christ that they...
Wholeness
“In the tradition of the early Church, the focus was on the healing of the whole person, body, mind, and spirit, accomplished by a...