The Struggle for Virtue - Asceticism in a Modern Secular SocietyEither life will be renewed by Gospel love or we will see the catastrophic ruin of humanityThe basis of everything is pure and genuine love for GodThis love for God naturally generates in us feelings of love towards our neighbor. In this heartfelt and insightful text Archbishop Averky goes straight to the roots of our modern alienation from God and each other. He explains the central role of asceticism in leading a spiritual life and reveals a fully

The Lenten Triodion exhorts us

spiritual direction and discernment of the will of God

This is the main icon of Christ on the Hermitage iconostasis and was painted by a monk at the Hermitage

It is as if Nikolai is attempting to make permanent in our minds not only the answers to these questions

service texts for remembering the Synaxis of the Saints of Switzerland liturgically

A Handbook for Burial in the Ancient Christian Tradition

accessible style to bear on the services of Holy Week

Before going to the monastery

road trip or a day at work

yet equally by a note of originality distinctive to the Gaza region

One of these was Elder Vitaly (Sidorenko)

The first volume of the Little Russian Philokalia Series contains the Life of St