Fourth story
“And it has pleased me to be close to God, and I have made the Lord my refuge and my hope” (Psalm 72:28). When I returned to my spiritual father’s house, I said: […]
John the Ladder of Sinai
He is John of Sinai, named after Sinai, and he was named Al-Sulami because he wrote the book “The Ladder of Virtues.” Saint John of the Ladder was born in Palestine around
Sermons for the Triodi time
Section Three: Sermons for the Time of the Triodi His Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius IV (Hazeem) (*) One of the Pharisees and the tax collector, O God, give us the grace of the Pharisee humbler from
Sunday of Saint John of the Ladder (Fourth Sunday of Lent)
Today the Church calls our attention to Saint John of Climacus (19) because this father, who lived in the seventh century, achieved in his life
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The spiritual father of Saints John the Ladder and Simon the New Theologian
Saint Theodore of Studite (826-759) asks, “Can we long for more than a real father, a father in God?” This is a personal relationship
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Triodic time
Easter, commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is a feast of holidays in the Orthodox Church, as without the Resurrection, Christianity would not have arisen in the first place.
Lenten Sunday saints
They are three saints. The first of them is Saint Gregory Palamas, Bishop of Thessalonica, whom we celebrate on the second Sunday. The second of them is Saint John