34 results for 'The Mountain of Silence'

I "met" Mother Alexandra in November of 2005 during a Google search. I turned up a few newspaper articles and the fascinating fact that this Orthodox monastic had been a real live princess: Princess ...

by the Very Rev. David Hester Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me. These few simple words, known as the Jesus Prayer, are of great importance to the Christian East—so much so that ...

This month we’re interviewing Melinda Johnson, author of our newest book, Letters to Saint Lydia—a novel in letters exchanged between a teenage girl and her patron saint. Tell us ...

Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches--Feed me with the food allotted to me;Lest I be full and deny You,And say, "Who is the LORD?"Or lest I be poor and steal,And ...

By Lorenzo Scupoli,  as edited by Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain,  adapted by Theophan the Recluse, and further adapted by Jack N. Sparks      What Is Mental Prayer? W ...

by Fr. Thomas Zell One of my earliest childhood memories is of piling into the back of our family car on Sunday morning and heading off to our little Baptist church in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Along w ...

SAINT PATRICK Orthodox Evangelist of the West by Father Lawrence R. Farley His world fell apart when he was sixteen years old: his home and village were brutally invaded and, with a thousand other ...

Inasmuch as Christ our Lord obliges all of us indiscriminately to “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s” (Matthew 22:21), I suppose that few Orthodox Christians seriously d ...

What Did the Early Church Fathers Teach about This Important Moral Issue?  Contemporary Christians neglect the teachings of the Church Fathers on key moral and theological issues ...

Abortion and the Early Church: What Did the Early Church Fathers Teach about This Important Moral Issue? by Michael J. Gorman Contemporary Christians neglect the teachings of the Church Fathers o ...