First Thoughts

Recent Posts

• St. Gregory of Nyssa: “Epektasis (ἐπέκτασις)- The soul’s eternal ‘straining toward’ God”.
• Fr. Seraphim (Aldea): “Monasticism ‘Through a Monk’s Eyes’.”
• Icons: “… we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,”
• The Rise of Monasticism in the 4th-Century Christian Church
• Evagrius Ponticus – “… like a sapphire or the color of heaven.”
• St. Athanasius on St. Antony the Great: “… learn what the life of monks ought to be;”
• St. Gregory of Nazianzus: “The Holy Ghost, which proceeds from the Father;”
• St. Basil the Great: “Homily About Ascesis – How a Monk Should be Adorned”
• St. Gregory of Sinai: ‘Sowing in the Light’
• St. Macrina and the Healing of the Soldier’s Daughter