Tag: Theophan the Recluse

• Prayer: The Test of Everything

  January 31, 2011

  Prayer is the test of everything; prayer is also the source of everything; prayer is the driving force of everything; prayer is also the director of everything. If prayer is right, everything is right. For prayer will not allow anything to go wrong. – St. Theophan the Recluse in The Art of Prayer, p. 51. Read more
• How is your prayer?

  February 17, 2009

  Theophan the Recluse was a Russian priest and bishop of the 19th century. In the latter half of his life he lived in solitude. Much of his life was spent writing and teaching about the life of prayer. In one of his homilies on prayer he offers the following: Let me recall a wise custom Read more