Κεφ. Ρ'
The Discipline of Love and Honor
We are called to maintain a heart free of malice toward all, while offering special honor to those who serve our spiritual healing.
It isn't possible to love all the brothers equally, but it is possible to meet everyone without harmful passion, free from resentment and hatred. After the Lord, we should love the priests, who cleanse us through the holy mysteries and pray for us. And we should honor our elders as angels, for they are the ones who prepare us for our struggles and heal the wounds inflicted by wild beasts.
Read the original Latin
Πάντας μὲν ἐπ’ ἴσης οὐ δυνατὸν τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς ἀγαπᾶν, πᾶσι δὲ δυνατὸν ἀπαθῶς συντυγχάνειν μνησικακίας ὄντα καὶ μίσους ἐλεύθερον· τοὺς ἱερεῖς ἀγαπητέον μετὰ τὸν Κύριον τοὺς διὰ τῶν ἁγίων μυστηρίων καθαρίζοντας ἡμᾶς καὶ προσευχομένους ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν· τοὺς δὲ γέροντας ἡμῶν τιμητέον ὡς τοὺς ἀγγέλους· αὐτοὶ γάρ εἰσιν οἱ πρὸς τοὺς ἀγῶνας ἡμᾶς ἀλείφοντες καὶ τὰ τῶν ἀγρίων θηρίων δήγματα θεραπεύοντες.
The Praktikos companion
A daily portion of stillness
Chosen Portion delivers one short contemplative reading and a guided moment of silence each day — the ascent, one step at a time.
Chosen Portion is the paced doorway into this collection: it portions the dense mystical treatises into one daily reading plus guided silence, exactly as the 14-day plan teaches.
- Daily bite-sized excerpts from the contemplative classics, never a wall of text
- A built-in timed stillness practice that grows from 2 minutes to 10
- Gentle progression through the tradition — the app remembers where you are on the ascent