Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Can you imagine any greater thing than to have communion with God himself, and to be wholly absorbed by him ? — Evagrios of Pontus. Chapters on Prayer. 34b. Philokalia. 1. p. 179. from my Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer colleague, V.Rev. Dr. john McGuckin’s book, The Book of Mystical Chapters, click here.   With…

Saint John of the Ladder was born in Syria and entered the monastery at the age of sixteen. After the death of his spiritual father, Martyrius John, the saint withdrew to a hermitage, where he lived for some twenty years, studying the lives of the saints. When he was seventy-five, the monks of Sinai persuaded…

Here is an inspiring prayer for your Holy Week. It’s from my colleague V. Rev. Dr. john McGuckin’s book, “The Book of Mystical Chapters.” Whether you pray alone, or in the company of others, try never to pray simply as a matter of routine, but always with conscious awareness of what you are doing. Evagrios…

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes. Without hope, we would get nothing accomplished. It is the fuel that burns our engines into action. That feeling of need, or desire, whether it be from pain, suffering, ambition or love of pleasure —…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners
Close Ad