Pemptousia
It’s needed so much
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
30 August 2022
Our being expands through prayer until it gradually embraces the whole ...
Interceding for Us (Miracles of Saint Joseph the Hesychast)
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
29 August 2022
When I was abroad in 1987 I saw Geronda again in my sleep after finishing m...
Those who love him
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
29 August 2022
In accordance with his plan, God allows us to be tested by various sorr...
Haphazard
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
28 August 2022
Repentance doesn’t mean painting over the cracks, an erratic, desultory...
At an inappropriate time
Saint John Chrysostom
27 August 2022
Sorrow was given to us by God. Not so that we could use it aimlessly an...
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. A personal note
James W. Lillie
27 August 2022
I first met Father Kallistos, as he then was, in Oxford. That he was a prie...
You’ll feel bad
Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis
26 August 2022
Say the prayer ‘Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me’ all the time, day a...
Nobody can do that
Saint Justin Popovich
25 August 2022
Any god who’s unable to give and guarantee eternal life for people is f...
They don’t know
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
24 August 2022
The disappointment, the existential void, the isolation that people fee...
It makes us strong and victorious
Saint John of Kronstadt
23 August 2022
Are you suddenly afflicted with sorrows? You’ll get over them. Are you ...