Welcome to Monachos.net

Welcome to Monachos.net, a web site dedicated to the study of Orthodox Christianity through its patristic, monastic and liturgical heritage. This introduction describes the site's nature and focus, with a brief overview of its main content areas.

Icon of St John of Tobolsk (17th/18th century), ancestor according to the flesh of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco (20th cent.).

Icon of St John of Tobolsk (17th/18th century), ancestor according to the flesh of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco. Commemorated 10th / 23rd June.

Click the menu options at the top of the page for access to hundreds of patristic texts in English, studies on the Fathers, articles and reflections on the liturgical services, and documents relating to the Orthodox monastic life.

Visit our active Discussion Community forum - If you've not yet done so, take some time to explore one of the key resources of Monachos.net: our extensive Discussion Community with over 76,000 posts pertaining directly to the legacy of the Church Fathers and monastic traditions. Read the collected archives, and join in the discussion yourself.

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A Word From the Holy Fathers is our web start-page, providing random quotations from the Church Fathers, drawn from an ever expanding database of over 420 passages. This area, which we have offered for several years, has recently been updated to provide for additional quotations and user submission.

What's new? Start here for the newest materials on the site, including new studies, broadcasts and texts.

The Wonder of the Incarnation – St Gregory the Theologian

11 January 2010

In this fiftieth and final episode of the current series of A Word From the Holy Fathers, we examine a poignant reflection on ‘the wonder of the Incarnation’ by St Gregory of Nazianzus. The broadcast concludes with a small announcement about the conclusion of this series, and advance notice of its return with a new series in a month’s time.

‘Glory to God who has shown Himself to us!’—St Ephrem & St John on the Nativity

04 January 2010

In a broadcast for the Feast of the Nativity According to the Flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ, we reflect on two hymns of St Ephrem the Syrian, and a portion of a homily by St John of Shanghai and San Francisco, on the glory of the night of Christ’s full revelation.

Remembering the Mother of God: St Cyril on the Theotokos and the Incarnation

28 December 2009

In this season of Christ’s incarnate coming in the flesh, we take a moment to reflect, through the words of St Cyril of Alexandria, on the role of the Virgin Theotokos in the nativity of the true God, Jesus Christ.