Articles
Discernment
Saint Makarios of Optina
16 December 2021
Allow me not to return to the past, but to dwell rather on what may prove u...
Unpleasant, but beneficial
Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
15 December 2021
Calumny is a great evil. It’s very wicked when other people attack and smea...
Patience Sanctifies
Nikolaos Voineskos
14 December 2021
Some years ago, a lady sent a letter to the late elder Efraim Katounakioti...
The Perfectionist
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
13 December 2021
‘Don’t, out of vanity or sycophancy, insist on having your own way, quarrel...
11th Sunday of Luke (excerpts from the Kyriakodromion)
Monk Agapios
13 December 2021
If a great king magnanimously laid out a banquet and invited everyone under...
The Sacred Supper of the Bloodless Divine Eucharist
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
13 December 2021
In today’s Gospel reading, we hear the Lord relating the very instructive p...
The Conception by Saint Ann of Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
10 December 2021
On 9 December we celebrate the conception by Saint Ann, that is the day whe...
Saint Anthimos, the Fool for Christ (+1867)
9 December 2021
Saint Anthimos was from Sofia, Bulgaria, where he was a married, parish-pri...
Saint Patapios of Thebes, the Wonderworker
Metropolitan Dionysios of Servia and Kozani †
8 December 2021
The yard of the Monastery of Saint Patapios at Loutraki, Greece
Today the...
The icon of the Oysterman
Archimandrite Nikon Koutsidis
7 December 2021
In the icon of the Holy Monastery of Stavronikita, there is a mosaic icon o...