St. Non of Wales – Mother of St. David of Wales

The Life of St David (of Wales) was written around 1095 by Rhigyfarch, and is our main source of knowledge for the lives of both St David (died c. 589) and his mother. Rhigyfarch was a Norman cleric whose father had been Bishop…

Слово в воспоминание Адамова изгнания из рая. Sermon of our First Hierarch on the Expulsion of Adam from Paradise – Russian

(Прощеное воскресение)Во имя Отца и Сына и Святаго Духа! С завтрашнего дня мы вступаем на поприще Великого святого поста и Святая Церковь напутствуетнас евангельскою заповедью о примирении с ближними, об отпущении и прощении им всех их согрешений преднами. «Аще бо…

Saint John Cassian the Roman – February 29

      The Monk John Cassian the Roman, as to the place of birth and the language in which he wrote – belonged to the West, but the spiritual native-land of the saint was always the Orthodox East. John accepted monasticism at…

Saint Herefrith of Lindisfarne – February 27

source: hefenfelth.wordpress.com Some of the most important additions to Bede’s Prose Life of Cuthbert came from Herefrith, a former abbot of Lindisfarne. I think its worth exploring what Bede tells us about Herefrith in  the Life of Cuthbert and what we can deduce. When…

PSALM 1 – A Spiritual Psalter, or Reflections on God

A Spiritual Psalter, or Reflections on GodExcerpted by Bishop Theophan the Recluse from the works of our Holy Father Ephraim theSyrianarranged in the manner of the Psalms of Davidtranslated by Antonina Janda PSALM 1