January 30, 7534
The spiritual experience of every Orthodox Christian is unique, subjective, and unrepeatable. Despite the universal laws of salvation, the Lord prepares for each person a distinct and unrepeatable spiritual path. Christianity blesses marriage and the continuation of the human race. This is embedded by the Lord Himself in the laws of nature, which were established…
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…
Quotes from Metropolitan Korniliy (Titov) The foundation of Christian life is growth in the Holy Spirit, so that the spirit in man may govern the flesh, and not the flesh the spirit. The holy fathers—hermits and ascetics—have left us, for our instruction, a teaching on bodily abstinence. A person needs only as much food as…