St Shenouda & Giving Alms
It happened once that a man came to St Shenouda. He was a man from Pemje and he had with him a hundred and...
Holy Fools As Imitators Of Christ
This vocation of folly for Christ's sake is not limited only to Russia, but is also a characteristic of Greek and Syriac Christianity from...
Fr Abd el Masih el Makary
“If virtue is revealed it is snatched by the demon of vain glory”
In the Orthodox Church we have a number of Category of saints,...
Obstacles To Reading The Bible
“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ”
- St. Jerome
We all know that the reading of the Bible is as essential to our Spiritual growth...
A Summary of The Fr Abdel Messieh el Macarii Biography
The blessed father Abdel Messieh el Macarii was born in 1892 in the village of Abu Shehata, district of Mattai in the provience of...
Experience Of Abandonment
Isaac describes the ascetic life as a constant variation between periods of ‘assistance’ and ‘feebleness’, presence and abandonment, spiritual ups and downs. Periods of...
Approaching Christ the Physician
In the book by Tito Colliander, The Way of the Ascetics, a brief conversation is recorded between a monk and a layman. The layman...
I Sought Him, But I Did Not Find Him
By night on my bed, feeling worn out and exhausted, I sought the one I love; I sought him, but I did not find...
St Basil the Great
One of the great church fathers of the 4th century is St Basil the bishop of Caesarea. He has no comprehensive biography, yet from...
The Love of God as the Fulfillment of all the Commandments
The love of God is not something that is taught, for we do not learn from another to rejoice in the light or to...
