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Souls like Feathers

[Abba Isaac said:] There is a good comparison between the soul and a delicate little feather. If a feather has not been touched by [moisture], it is so light that the slightest breath of wind can puff...

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To Love Much

The woman who had fallen into many sins, perceiving Your Divinity, O Lord, assumes the role of a myrrh-bearer; and lamenting, she brings the myrrh before your burial. “Woe to me!” she said; “For me,...

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Fish Out of Water

Abba Antony said: “Fish die if they are long out of water. So monks who dally long outside their cell or with men of the world, lose their will to solitude. As a fish can only live in the sea, so we...

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An Introduction to Prayer

Q. What is Prayer? A. The lifting up of man’s mind and heart to God, manifested by devout words.  ~ Metropolitan St. Philaret of Moscow, Longer Catechism, 390 The following is the text of a talk I will...

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