“It was through victories in small things that the fathers won their great battles.” St. Peter of Damascus Kh. Vanessa and I were speaking about this important subject at the beginning of this Lenten season. We needed to come to…
“If man cannot go to the desert, then the desert can come to man.” Carlo Carretto, The Desert in the City About a year ago Dr. Bradley Nassif, professor of New Testament at North Park University in Chicago, came to…
“If a deformed and extremely ugly soul has suddenly willed to do so, it can change itself, it can ascend to the summit of beauty and again become comely and graceful; if it again grows careless, it can again be…
“If there were less of what seems like ease in our lives they would tell more for Christ and souls We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the…
The Nativity Sermon of St. John Chrysostom BEHOLD a new and wondrous mystery. My ears resound to the God's song, piping no soft melody, but chanting full forth a heavenly hymn. The Angels sing. The Archangels blend their voice in…
