“Ignition of the mind in the spiritual desert,” or the First Word, setting out the teaching about the path of solitude (Ascetic Words, collection I, treatise...

The works of St. Isaac the Syrian have always enjoyed and continue to enjoy enormous respect among Orthodox ascetics of faith and piety. Many holy fathers in...

For the first time in Russian, Conversations from the recently opened “2nd volume” of the works of the great Father of the Church of the 7th century, one of ...

Dear reader, here is the famous book of words by the “great teacher of inner life” of St. Isaac the Syrian, translated by the holy elder Paisius of Velichkov...