WE HAVE THE PRIVILEGE of living in an age in which stone piled upon stone no longer remains. The last consequence of the values and and ideals exalted by Western society has been the disintegration of society. I consider it a quite positive and challenging fact to live in a culture in ruins. Those values …
Tag: holiness
Monks
"Holiness is not something that is just about the saints, whose icons we venerate and whose lives we read about. Holiness is better understood as wholeness, made whole, or healed..." by Abbot Tryphon, The Morning Offering, February 12, 2016, All-Merciful Saviour Monastery on Vashon Island, Washington: The monastic vocation is a special calling from God that …
What is a Holy Pilgrimage?
This article, originally a talk given by the author at the Skete of St. Seraphim of Sarov in Moss Beach, California some twenty years ago, breathes the fragrance of the Thebaid, and movingly conveys the Orthodox 'phronema', the Mind of the Church, which reminds us that, "The whole aim of our life is to become holy, …
The North American Thebaid 