Spring of Spiritual Life Spiritual life is just like physical life, it passes through the four seasons throughout the persons...
Jacob of Serug’s Homilies on the nativity
THE DEPENDENCE OF THE CREATION ON THE CHILD OF SWADDLING CLOTHES O wise man, come, see the babe in the...
On Fasting and Vigil
Fasting is the champion of every virtue, the beginning of the struggle, the crown of the abstinent, the beauty...
True Fasting
+ “The Bible says “He who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.”...
On Fasting
Fasting is a medicine. But medicine, as beneficial as it is, becomes useless because of the inexperience of the user....
Selected sayings of the Desert Fathers on Fasting
A leader of a community asked Abba Poemen: “How can I gain the fear of God?” Abba Poemen replied: “How...
Spiritual Springtime of the Year
THE GREAT FAST (LENT) This fasting period has many names. For instance we call it the Holy Fast because all...
Shredding For Lent
We all know Lent to be a period of asceticism, whereby we limit what we desire to eat for spiritual...
Fasting And The Gym
If there were patron saints for working out during the holy fasting periods, it would have to be Daniel, Hananiah,...
On Fasting
Fasting, neither above nor below your ability, will help you in your vigil. One should not ponder divine matters on...