The Spiritual Journey of E. G. Morgan

[...] Lord Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner I am spending time praying the Jesus Prayer. The Jesus Prayer is a traditional prayer of the Orthodox Church. Clergy, Monks, and Laity [...]

[...] ; Dietrich Bonhoeffer I have spent much time considering the idea of a “normal” christian life. I think I am tainted with Western cultural norms. I have been brainwashed from a child to [...]

[...] , not as judges to teach and correct. Humility is the pre-condition for everything in the Christian life, especially in our reading of the Scriptures. In this as in all things, “God resists the [...]

[...] immediately. He was never looking over his shoulder at the textbooks and traditions. – Herbert McCabe [...]

[...] The christian may expect to be crucified with him.” (Love, Law and Language, p.153)   – Herbert McCabe [...]

[...] ring on your finger and the sandals on your feet, and to get drunk out of your mind.” – Herbert McCabe [...]

[...] don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.” St. Padre Pio I watched a wonderful Italian movie (subtitles and all) about the life of Padre Pio. The [...]

[...] what folks in the marketplace deal with on a day to day basis. Often times those in vocational ministry forget at-least 50% of their parishioners are in the marketplace “slaying the [...]

[...] into a 7am-4pm time schedule no longer gives me the flexibility to engage in vocational ministry at the level I have been accustom too. This is all well and good because it forces [...]

For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil trea [...]

So let us shun loose speech like deadly poison – St. Hesychios the Priest Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stoma [...]

[...] to  baseball game yesterday. Season opener for the Huntsville Stars, which is a minor league baseball team. It was good to hang out with friends, grab a beer and relax. It was a great [...]

[...] and the continual need for forgiveness from daily sin. I have been using the traditional Orthodox prayer rope to assist me with the prayer. It is a rope with 100 knots that are slid [...]

Meditations on Monasticism from SEEfilms on Vimeo. [...]

[...] God. It is not until the difficulty or pain arrises that I begin to call out to God. Jeanne Guyon wrote that this is precisely the reason God allows trials and suffering in to our life. Trials, [...]