St John Chrysostom on Reading Scripture
Friends, I am convinced that we - all of us: men, women, and children - need to read the Scriptures more than we do. To that end I am...
St Gregory the Theologian: On the Nativity
Since these things [humanity’s fallen condition; JW] required a greater help, they also obtained something greater. It was the Word of...
“A little Child, God before the ages!”
The above is a translation of the kontakion of the Nativity/Christmas composed by St Romanos the Melodist in the late 5th or early 6th...
St Romanos the Melodist: from the Second Kontakion on the Nativity
The first kontakion of St Romanos the Melodist on the Nativity is well known and much loved. His lesser known second kontakion on the...
The Symbolic Cosmos
from The Roots of Christian Mysticism by Olivier Clement The ancient Greeks, to symbolize a true meeting, used to use a split ring whose...
