Saint Basil of Poiana Marului — Part II: His Writings, Teaching, and Philokalic Legacy “The writings of Elder Basil can and must be regarded as the very first book to which anyone who wishes to practice the Jesus Prayer with…
Saint Basil of Poiana Marului — Part I: His Life and Encounter with Saint Paisius Velichkovsky “When I saw him, I glorified God from my whole soul that He had deemed me worthy, unworthy as I am, to behold so…
How a believer can recognise a canonical ROCOR parish in the UK — and why not every church calling itself the «Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia» is in communion with the Orthodox Church.
The scene has repeated itself for decades. An Orthodox Christian, searching for spiritual depth, hears about the Philokalia. He buys it — in English, the Palmer-Sherrard-Ware edition in five volumes; in Romanian, the Stăniloae edition in twelve volumes; in Russian,…
On the shelves of Orthodox bookshops today you can find several different Philokalias — in Greek, in Russian, in Romanian, in English. They are not identical. This article maps the living lines of transmission — from St. Paisius Velichkovsky at Neamț, through St. Theophan the Recluse, to Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae — and explains what each editor added, omitted, filtered, or restored, and why it matters for the reader today.
In the Holy Orthodox Church, water is not merely a creature of nature, but one of the foremost through which the gift of God works. From the very Creation, the Holy Spirit moved upon the face of the waters (Genesis…
From the deserts of Egypt and Saint Isaac the Syrian, through Saint Gregory Palamas and the Philokalia, to Saint Paisius Velichkovsky and Saint Joseph the Hesychast: the unbroken thread of the Jesus Prayer in Orthodox tradition.