Logismoi

Today, 5 December, is the feast of St Sabbas the Sanctified (439-532), the great Palestinian monastic founder. St Sabbas entered a Cappadoci...

I nearly forgot to mention that today is the feastday of two great Saints (whose Lives can be read here ): the Great Martyr Barbara (306) an...

Due to pressure from various persons in my life, I am unfortunately unable to claim that I have not read the wretched Dan Brown (about whom ...

St John Climacus’s famous statement in Ladder 26:31, ‘Angels are a light for monks, and the monastic life is a light for all men’ ( The Lad...

I don’t know about anyone else, but I often become quite confused when reading the Fathers. This is not a big problem per se , but it is som...

I almost forgot to post about a very obscure Saint today. St Tugdual of Tréguier (c. AD 528-564) was a native of Wales who lived as a hermit...

I became extremely taken with the French Orthodox monk and theologian of spirituality, Archimandrite Placide (Deseille), about seven years a...