Pemptousia
The heart’s aflame
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
22 August 2022
When you say the Jesus prayer continually, and the grace of God oversha... 
‘All generations call you blessed, only Mother of God’
Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th.
21 August 2022
When, after the Annunciation, the Virgin Mary visited her kinswoman Elizabe...
”He was nourished by prayer and did not feel the pangs of hunger”: New Martyr Theocharis from Neapolis, Asia Minor
21 August 2022
In 1740, the Ottoman Empire was at war and Sultan Ahmet ordered that all th...
Force yourself to improve
Saint Basil the Great
21 August 2022
Look at the work you do every day, compare it with the work you did the...
They come by themselves.
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
20 August 2022
If we seek the remission of our sins and pay attention to the purity of...
Orthodox Spirituality
Sotirios Balatsoukas, Professor of Hagiology
19 August 2022
Orthodox spirituality is the life of the christian which is inclined to bec...
They’ll strangle you
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
19 August 2022
Our soul’s like a container full of water. If you pour the water onto f...
The most noble expression
Elder Christodoulos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousi
18 August 2022
A labor of love is the most noble expression of the Christian ethos. Th...
The Dormition of the Mother of God
George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
17 August 2022
In the hymnography of the Orthodox Church, the Mother of God is called ‘god...
They spend their time
Saint John Chrysostom
17 August 2022
This is why it’s better to equip children with moral and spiritual weap...
