Christian Behaviour: according to the Saint Pope Kyrollos the Sixth, is a great little book that captures the spirituality of...
H.H. Pope Kyrillos VI – On The Divine Liturgy
In a letter to a monk ordained a priest, H.H Pope Kyrillos wrote, “Grace and peace from our Lord, God...
Monastic Poverty And Real Poverty
We may at times mix between ‘monastic poverty’ and ‘real poverty’ when we read the life of a saint or...
Tears in the Life of Saints
Saint Arsenius is one of the saints who became very famous for his weeping. It is said that his eyelashes...
Is Monasticism for me?
Monasticism is not like you see it in movies. It is not like you read of it in books. It...
Introduction to the Psalms
Psalms have a prominent place in our church. In ancient times, one of the Popes of Alexandria refused to ordain...
St. Shenouda’s Leadership
St Shenouda was an abbot of the White Monastery of Atribe in the desert of Thebes for more than sixty...
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...
Experience Of Abandonment
Isaac describes the ascetic life as a constant variation between periods of ‘assistance’ and ‘feebleness’, presence and abandonment, spiritual ups...
Approaching Christ the Physician
In the book by Tito Colliander, The Way of the Ascetics, a brief conversation is recorded between a monk and...