Look to Heaven, and measure every step of your life so that it is a step toward it. It seems to me that it is so simple and at the same time comprehensive.
St. Theophan the Recluse on Why Love Cannot Exist without Humility. Find out about it in our monastery blog. We have been writing about Christianity, church history, church products and crafts, the lives of the great ascetics, etc.
St. Theophan the Recluse on the Feast of the Myrrhbearing Women. Find out about it in our monastery blog. We have been writing about Christianity, church history, church products and crafts, the lives of the great ascetics, etc.
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Lactantius quotes from Lactantius:→ Previous Next Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (250-325), also known as Lactantius, was an early Christian author whose most important work is the Institutiones Divinae ("The Divine Institutes"), an apologetic treatise intended to establish the reasonableness and truth of Christianity to pagan critics. At the request of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, he became
St. Epiphanius of salamis quotes from Epiphanius of Salamis: → Previous Next Epiphanius of Salamis (310-403) was a bishop of Salamis best known for composing the Panarion, a very large compendium of the heresies up to his own time. One of the heresies mentioned was Collyridianism, an Early Christian heretical movement condemned by the Church, whose adherents worshipped
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Bede was born near St. Peter and St. Paul monastery at Wearmouth-Jarrow, England. He was sent to the monastery at the age of three and was ordained at the age of thirty.
In the previous post, I omitted one of the popular warrior saints, whose story is so different from the others that it requires a separa...
There was no fire-and-brimstone in this passionate Doctor of the Church.
When the Prayer Is Right, All Is Right: 10 Selected Teachings on Prayer of Saint Theophan the Recluse. Find out about it in our monastery blog. We have been writing about Christianity, church history, church products and crafts, the lives of the great ascetics, etc.
Theophan of Poltova.
Icon of the Mother of God ′ ′ Donskaya ". 14th century. St. Theophan of the Greek. Russia, Moscow city, Tretyakov Gallery. Blessed Madonna, save us! ..
The Winter Bohun's Beauty. From Theophan-o's old collection of press cuttings/photographs from the Polish Press (1997–1999). It is a fan account. I don’t benefit from it. Copyright belongs to the P…
by St. Theophan the Recluse Rarely does the Rite of Orthodoxy, which is now being performed, take place without censures and reproaches on somebody’s part. And no matter how many sermons are given explaining that the Church here acts wisely for the salvation of her children — still the malcontents just keep repeating their line. […]
If we think about the Latin roots of the word humility, we see that it comes from the word humus, which indicates fruitful earth. St. Theophan writes about this. Just think about what earth is. It lies there in silence, open, defenseless, vulnerable before the face of the sky. From the sky it receives scorching heat, the sun’s rays, rain, and dew. It also receives what we call fertilizer, that is, manure—everything that we throw into it. And what happens? It brings forth fruit. And the more it bears what we emotionally call humiliation and insult, the more fruit it yields.
