

Kill the Flesh to Acquire a Body
At the end of his long chapter on chastity (Step 15) in The Ladder of Divine Ascent, after spending pages discussing the never-ending...


The Cross ~ The Tree of Life
This Sunday, the third of Great Lent, is the Sunday of the Cross. On Saturday evening the Cross, decorated with flowers, is brought from...


What Have You Made?
The Bible opens with those well-known words, “In the beginning God made….” Five more times in the first 25 verses it repeats “And God...


Fasting and Love
Invariably in Great Lent I come across internet memes quoting the Fathers of the Church with phrases such as “Love is greater than...