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Despondency: The Spiritual Teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on Acedia(Post)
It has become plainly obvious that, in current years, amidst wars, rumors of wars, disease, distraction, and the seemingly forced uprooting of nuclear family life in the secular west, we are being as ...
Review: Letters to Saint Olympia(Post)Feeling Depressed? Try a Church FatherDepression has been called the malady of the modern age. And yet there is no shortage of psychotherapies, medicines, and self-help gurus promising relief. Letter ...
Review: The Liturgy of Death(Post)The Meaning of Death Ravaged by Secularism and the Church as “Co-Conspirator”Priest, dean, and historian, Alexander Schmemann was, perhaps, first and foremost a liturgiologist, a critical examiner of ...
Review: Seven Days on the Roads of France(Post)Anyone who wants to know more about Vladimir Lossky, the man behind several grand theological works, must not miss out on the sheer pleasure of reading Seven Days on the Roads of France, published ...
Review: Hymns of Repentance(Post)Of the likely hundreds of kontakia, or hymns, composed by St Romanos the Melodist, fifty-nine of his genuine “sermon-poems” survive today, yet he is known mainly as the author of the Akathist Hymn to ...
Christ the Conqueror of Hell(Post)Though not encyclical, such as other tomes (The Departure of the Soul jumps to mind), Christ the Conqueror of Hell is a fantastic insight into the deep liturgical, dogmatic, and poetic roots of our O ...
Starting a Parish Lending Library(Page)By John W. Truslow, Jr. This article is written in the hope that you, with God's help, will pray for and build a parish/mission lending library for the good of your own community and for your own ed ...