Tag: spirituality

East-West Monastic Meeting, Minster Abbey, 28-30 August

Sister Benedict Gaughan, who has done so much to promote East-West encounter through meetings of monks and nuns from Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Oriental Orthodox traditions at Minster Abbey arising from the…

The Glory Suffered

To mark in August the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, here is a video presentation of Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia on “The Glory Suffered”, the first of four lecture delivered…

East-West Monastic Meeting VIII, Turvey Abbey, November 2009

The latest in the admirable line of Christian East-West Meetings, hosted in a monastic context, will take place at Turvey Abbey, Bedfordshire, on Saturday 14 November 2009, 10.30 to 4.30. Envisioning a…

John Scotus: Expressing the Ineffable God

The Vatican Information Service reports, 10th June 2009: At his general audience, held this morning in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope turned his attention, in his series of reflections on the great…

St Theodore the Studie: Order, Obedience, Renunciation

The Vatican Information Service reports. 27 May 2009: In this morning’s general audience, the Pope continued with his series of catechesis on the great writers of the Eastern and Western Church in…

St Theodore the Studite: Order, Obedience, Renunciation

The Vatican Information Service reports, 27 May 2009: In this morning’s general audience, the Pope continued with his series of catechesis on the great writers of the Eastern and Western Church in…

St John Damascene, A Leading Figure in Byzantine Theology

The Vatican Information Service reports, 6 May 2009: In his general audience held this morning in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope focused his remarks on St. John Damascene (675-749), “a leading figure…

St John Damascene, a Leading Figure of Byzantine Theology

The Vatican Information Service writes, 6 May 2009: In his general audience held this morning in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope focused his remarks on St. John Damascene (675-749), “a leading figure…

Mother Maria Skobtsova

The Pearl of Great Price: The Life of Mother Maria Skobstova, 1891-1945, Father Sergei Hackel. £12.99 Silent as a Stone – Mother Maria of Paris and the Trash Can Rescue, Jim Forest.£9.99p…