Wisdom & Word
1st Discourse on Fasting [5]
Saint Basil the Great
19 December 2018
Fasting in the Old Testament
But let’s tie our words to history, examini...
1st Discourse on Fasting [4]
Saint Basil the Great
18 December 2018
Through fasting we return to paradise
4. Because we didn’t fast, we left...
1st Discourse on Fasting [3]
Saint Basil the Great
16 December 2018
Do you think I derive its antiquity from the Law? Fasting is older than t...
1st Discourse on Fasting [2]
Saint Basil the Great
14 December 2018
We should fast without hypocrisy and cleanse the soul from sins.
‘Pour...
How can I deal with my sinful condition?
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
13 December 2018
12 August 1984
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Gho...
1st Discourse on Fasting
Saint Basil the Great
12 December 2018
Fasting is a prophetic command
‘Sound the trumpet on the day of the new mo...
Human Tape-recorders
Saint Paisios the Athonite
10 December 2018
Because of so much reading, people today have ended up as tape-recorders an...
On Self-Restraint
Book of the Elders
7 December 2018
Some monks from the skete set out to visit Abba Anthony. So they got on a b...
Love seeks nothing for itself
Saint Isaac the Syrian
5 December 2018
They say about blessed Anthony, that he never thought of doing anything tha...
True Knowledge of God and of the Self
Saint Justin Popovich
3 December 2018
An excerpt from Put Bogopoznanja (The Path to Knowledge of God)
Only the n...