ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is. By St Dorotheos of Gaza Well did Abba Poemen say that the advancement of a monk is revealed in temptations; for a monk who truly undertakes to work for the Lord should, as the wise Sirach says, prepare his soul for temptation (Sir. 2:1), so that he will never be astonished nor despair at anything that happens to him, believing that nothing ... Read More »
The 13TH Instruction: That one must bear temptation with thanksgiving and without disturbance
