MARCH 30, 2011 DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI TO KEEP OR TO ABOLISH... March 30, 2011 Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent Matthew 5:17-19 Jesus said to his disciples: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of … [More]

The Ladder Of Divine Ascent by St. John Climacus
Compiled by Father Demetrios Serfes
Boise, Idaho
October, 1997
http://www.serfes.org/orthodox/divine.htm

Readings “The Ladder of Divine Ascent”:
"This work is ahead of us until the fire of God shall enter our sanctuary" (see Psalms 73:16-17), and then indeed the power of our predispositions will no longer constrain us. For our God is a fire consuming all lusts, all stirrings of passion, all predispositions, and all hardness of heart, both within and without, both visible and spiritual.
A chaste man is completely oblivious to the difference between bodies. The rule and limit of absolute chastity is … [More]

SAINT JOHN CLIMACUS
Abbot
(525-605)
Saint John, whose national origin remains unknown, was called Climacus because of a treatise he wrote called The Ladder (Climax) of Paradise. He made such progress in learning as a disciple of Saint Gregory Nazianzen that while still young, he was called the Scholastic. At the age of sixteen he turned from the brilliant future which lay before him, and retired to Mount Sinai, where he was placed under the direction of a holy monk named Martyrius. Once that … [More]