As you enter the great 13th century Cathedral of Chartres through the west door you find yourself walking onto and

Bishop Kalistos Ware continues his exploration of the stages of the journey as follows: “So having advanced some way on

We saw how Origen linked our two ways of being, active and contemplative, with Mary and Martha, but later he

Careful, contemplative reading of a short passage of Scripture is very much part of the Benedictine tradition. Many of us

As I explain in my introduction to the Chapter on Origen in ‘Journey to the Heart’: “Origen was a native Alexandrian, highly educated in Greek, Jewish and Christian wisdom.

Early Christian Fathers stressed that we could not know God with our rational mind. No image, concept, or name could ever do justice.

How the early Church Fathers see this connection between our Martha and our Mary, between the ‘ego’ and the ‘self’, our Divine spark, is best illustrated in the teaching of Clement of Alexandria (150-215).

The teaching of Jesus, St John and Meister Eckhart brings out the importance of recognizing the two sides of our human nature.