“God in His goodness has arranged things perfectly, so that with our gifts, we can help each other, and with our faults, we can be humbled by each other. For every person has some gifts; but everyone also has some faults which one must struggle to overcome.” – Saint Paisios
Category: The Morning Offering
Let Us Tend the Garden of the Heart Both my grandfathers and my mother were avid gardeners, so I grew up surrounded by the beauty of plants and flowers. The cottage garden is a distinct style of garden that is certainly my favorite. The use of traditional materials, in an
Relativism Reigns While Truth is Forgotten We have moved from a period in which little Samuel said, “speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth,” to one in which we now say, “Listen, Lord, for thy servant speaketh.” Our American culture has become so enamored, even consumed, with the importance of “self”
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The Decline of Christianity in America Some thirty-six years ago our monastic brotherhood arrived on Vashon Island, establishing ourselves in a rental house near the Village of Dockton. This little village had two churches, built by the original founders of the community. Dockton, in the 1880’s, had the largest dry
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And Our Struggle for Repentance In our struggle on the path to God, repentance must be the central theme. In our fallen state, our brokenness keeps us separated from God, for our darkened nous can not see clearly. Repentance changes our nous, clearing the way for complete union with Christ,
Is all darkness spiritual? “Abbot, I live near you and the depression from lack of sunlight is very hard to tolerate. When I’ve lived in sunny and warm climates I have felt fine. Do you ever have this problem? What do you do, if so? I know it’s partially always
When We Fall We Must Get Up Again It is often the case that we fail to keep God’s commandments and find ourselves despondent, unable to make progress in the battle over our sins. The same sins seem to constantly plague us. Despondency is our enemy, for it is the
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