Welcome to our newsletter, dear readers, • Our first library selection this month is an excerpt from our soon to be published Hermes Trismegistus: The Way of Wisdom, by Algis Uzdavinys. In this prolonged and erudite meditation, the concept, image and influence of Hermes and the Hermetica through the centuries are analysed and put in| The Matheson Trust
When Emperor Justinian decided to patronize the construction of a monastic complex at Sinai in the mid-sixth century, he was not exactly starting from scratch.[1] Already in the early fourth century, a church had been set up at the site of a bush identified as that which burned with fire but was not consumed, from... The post “The Place on Which You Stand is Holy Ground” appeared first on Public Orthodoxy.| Public Orthodoxy
Welcome to our newsletter, dear readers. • We open our monthly selection with a page on St Francis of Assisi’s 13th-century “Canticle of the Creatures” (Laudes Creaturarum), also known as “Canticle of Brother Sun,” including a bilingual text, an audio reading of the original and an interpretative essay. This beautiful and brief poem has been| The Matheson Trust
Welcome to our newsletter, dear readers, Our first new library highlight this month is an excerpt from Sonorous Desert, a book about how the sounds of the desert—sounds like wind, water, thunder, animals, and even humans—shaped the development of Christian monasticism in the Middle East. Reasons for choosing a monastic life naturally varied from person| The Matheson Trust
Welcome to our last newsletter of this year, with our wishes for a blessed 2025. • Our first new library addition this month is a selection from the Sutra of the Heap of Jewels, Ratnakuta Sutra, a major ancient collection of Buddhist sutras, which has been called a small encyclopedia of Indian Mahayana Buddhism. “…| The Matheson Trust
Welcome to our newsletter, dear reader, • We begin our monthly selection with a life of one of the Desert Fathers, St Bishoy (Paisios) of Scetis (5th century), known in the Coptic Church of Alexandria as the “Star of the Desert”. He prayed constantly, without rest and without interruption, just as the Apostle Paul commanded.| The Matheson Trust