The Life of St. Makrina & On VirginityEVERY CHRISTIAN CAN LIVE THE ANGELIC LIFE The moving story of how a young woman transformed her entire family and home into inhabitants of an earthly Paradise. The Life of Saint Makrina is Saint Gregory of Nyssa's beautiful and endearing portrait of his older sister who lived ascetically on their family on their estate. It was Saint Makrina's example and teaching that let her brother Saint Basil the Great to renounce a promising career and embrace the

A Child's Guide to Vespers is designed to help children follow along with the service of Great Vespers and learn more about the Church and our Faith

and interpret the Bible

St Theophan the Recluse

Vitaly became a holy elder like his preceptors

providing for tight budgets and dietary restrictions

there lived a unique community of ascetics who experienced wondrous and indescribable things

vanilla and amber musk

Seraphim’s work

compared the spiritual life to a ladder of thirty steps

women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism

the fruit of his spiritual growth as an Orthodox Christian and his matured outlook as an Orthodox pastor

Saint John Climacus