In the Eastern Christian tradition, January is filled with the feast days of some of the Church’s mightiest theologians and ascetics. Jan. 1 is the feast of St. Basil the Great, Jan. 10 is the feast ...

During its historic past, the spiritual activity of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi [one of the twenty monasteries on the Holy Mountain of Athos—Trans.] has proved to be twofold. On the one hand, the ...

“For All the Saints” is an occasional look at the multiplicity of saints recognized by Christian churches. Maximos had one of the greatest minds in the history of the church. Born in 580 in ...

That the spiritual habits and disciplines of the Christian aim at such formation, the cultivation of virtue and the pursuit of holiness, ought to be obvious; when a Christian abstains from some evil ...

Carlyle's mother may have hit the nail only halfway on the head. In that memorable quotation in which she rebukes young Thomas' claim that as a preacher he would simply tell his parishioners to go out ...