+ A Blessed Great Lent to All Once the Abbot of a monastery gave the order that the monks were to observe a fast for one week. However, it happened that during these days some monks from Egypt came to visit Abba Moses the Ethiopian. In order to feed them,...

+ “Initially the disciples were reluctant to feed the hungry, but seeing this, the Savior gave to them in abundance from the fragments. This teaches us as well, that we, by expending a little effort for the glory of God, shall receive richer grace according to the saying of Christ,...

+ “We hear that Jonah prayed in the belly of the whale and that God heard his prayer. From this we learn that we should not be obsessed and limit prayer to certain places. Instead, we ought to know that every place we are, He is the Lord of that...

+ There once lived a young woman, the daughter of a governor, who had a demon inside her. The father of this girl knew a monk, whom he persisted in asking to heal his daughter. The monk replied, “No one can heal your daughter except some anchorites. But if we...