The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia..

The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these ….

The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's ga….

It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the h….

In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole li….