What follows is a paper I wrote for my graduate class titled “Desert Monastics in Context” which I took this past fall semester through the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius. You can download a pdf of it from this link. [Read More]

“Jesus said to him: No man putting his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:62 [Read More]

“When husband and wife are united in marriage they no longer seem like something earthly, but rather like the image of God Himself.” - St. John Chrysostom [Read More]

For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope: Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, even till now. Romans 8:19-22 [Read More]

“Pray without ceasing” — 1 Thessalonians 5:17 [Read More]

“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.” - Job 12:7-10 [Read More]

“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone... [Read More]