Abba John News Today

We should be willing to accept challenges in life, for by them we can and will find life interesting as we become better persons.

"Abba Anthony was living his customary day of prayer and labor in the desert hermitage he called home when a band of seekers paid a visit. We are sometime in the fourth century of our era and in Scetis..."

On March 30 and on the Fourth Sunday of Holy Lent the Orthodox Church commemorates our Righteous Father John Climacus. He is called Climacus due to his authorship of the great spiritual work The Ladder of Divine Ascent. His commemoration is designated by the Church on one of the Sundays of Lent as his life and writings affirm him as a supreme bearer and proponent of Christian asceticism. The ascetic example of this great Saint of the Church inspires us in our Lenten journey.

Maureen Pratt suggests that to regain the sense of peace we so dearly want, we turn away from the flow of angry rhetoric, turn the phone off and, first, take a walk away from the noise.