The experienced use of mental prayer (or prayer of the heart), requiring solitude ... But the divide runs much deeper than most tend to realize. Second Sunday of Great Lent. St. Gregory Palamas. God ...

Saint Jerome, one of the four great Latin Doctors of the Church (the other three being St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, and St. Gregory the Great ... his years in study, prayer, and ascetcism.

With his friend Gregory of Nazianzus and his brother Gregory ... No wonder, when the great St. Athanasius died, the responsibility of being the defender of the faith against Aryanism fell upon ...