From childhood he prepared himself for it, waited three years, and then ... experienced a severe shock. He crawled down the aisle in a dark, candlelit church, wearing a white, ankle-length, shirt ...
Archimandrite Roman [Braga], 93, of the Monastery of the Holy Dormition here fell asleep in the Lord shortly before midnight on the evening of Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The first thing in the monastic life is a call, a vocation. A vocation is something that does not depend on us. The answer depends on us; but the call is an act of God.
One of the main problems faced by Christians and especially monastics today is that people are not used to restraining themselves, to enduring, or forcing themselves to do anything, to assume ...
