In the silence of the desert, Matta El Maskine (1919–2006) found God—and transformed modern Coptic monasticism. His life of ...

The Pilgrim has also been given a book, the Philokalia: a collection of ancient writings that explain the Jesus Prayer (more usually “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner”).

Copra is the seventh-best restaurant in the Bay Area, according to Chronicle critics MacKenzie Chung Fegan and Cesar ...

The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Thirty Part II, Homily Thirty-one and Homily Thirty-two Part I ...