An Ascetic Discourse by the Same Venerable and God-bearing Father Nilus the Faster Many Greeks and many Jews attempted the pursuit of wisdom, but only the disciples of Christ attained…
Preface on Prayer by Our Venerable Father Nilus the Faster When the flame of unclean passions was burning me, you cooled my intellect — which was fainting under the most…
From the Same Venerable Cassian, to Abbot Leontius: On the Holy Fathers of Skete and on Discernment A discourse full of great profit. The coming to Abba Moses Saint Germanus…
Saint John Cassian the Roman on the Eight Passionate Thoughts Among these writings I composed a Word on the common life, and in this Word, relying on your prayers, I…
On the Venerable Cassian (Introduction) On the Venerable Cassian. Our venerable father Cassian the Roman lived during the reign of Theodosius the Younger in the year 433 after the Birth…
About Abba Philemon: A Most Profitable Discourse It was related of Abba Philemon the anchorite that he withdrew into a cave called Romeou, not far from the Lavra, and there…
Blessed Diadochos: One Hundred Practical Texts on Spiritual Knowledge and Discernment Of blessed Diadochos, bishop of Photiki in Epirus: one hundred practical texts on spiritual knowledge and discernment — on…
Блаженного Діадоха, єпископа Ілірика Фотікійського, Слово подвижницьке (Границі) Блаженного Діадоха, єпископа Ілірика Фотікійського, Слово подвижницьке із 100 глав, а перед ними подано 10 границь. Перша границя віри Безпристрасні думки про…
The Ascetic and Greatly Consoling Discourse of Blessed John of Carpathia to the Monks from India Blessed John of Carpathia, to the monks from India who asked him about this.…
Our Venerable Father John, Bishop of Carpathia, to the monks who wrote to him from India, 100 consoling chapters When petitioners come before earthly kings and bring them flowers, they…
By the Same Theoleptos of Philadelphia (Chapters) By the Same Theoleptos of Philadelphia 1 The mind, withdrawing from external things and gathering in internal ones, concentrates in itself, that is,…
A Discourse by Theoleptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia, Explaining the Hidden Activity in Christ and Briefly Describing the Labor of the Monastic Order The monastic order – is a tree with…
The discourse of Nikephoros the Monk on sobriety and the guarding of the heart A discourse full of great profit for you who desire to obtain the beautiful divine revelation…
Our Venerable Father Philotheos of Sinai: Forty Texts on Watchfulness 1. There is within us a noetic warfare more grievous than the warfare of the senses. He who works at…
Hesychios the Presbyter: A Word to Theodoulos on Watchfulness and Virtue (The Beginning and True Pledge of the Soul’s Illumination: Chapters in Answer and Chapters on Prayer) 1. Watchfulness is…