Spirituality

How do people become ascetics? What have they understood or realized? What drives them? Why do they strive so selflessly? Or is it a natural inclination they are born with? Christianity is a religion of spiritual struggle, and the Holy Fathers call Christ Himself the Initiator of that struggle. Christ commands those who wish to…

Christian Life as Struggle A.V. Muravyev Christianity, from its very beginning, is revealed as a struggle. In a prefigurative way, the Old Testament prophet and king David repeatedly speaks of God’s struggle against enemies and of divine aid in battling foes: “Judge, O Lord, them that harm me; fight against them that fight against me”…