Words of Life
It’s become a bad habit
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
11 December 2018
We aren’t concerned with our own faults and sins, but we find plenty of t...
It’s a sacrifice
Starets Iosif
10 December 2018
If your prayer isn’t fervent, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t pleasing to G...
Nobody else
Abbess Theosemni, the Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete
9 December 2018
Let’s take communion with humble thoughts. We should listen to and concen...
That’s where it takes you
Saint Neofytos Recluse
8 December 2018
Through unflinching repentance, knowledge of the self leads to knowledge ...
Not the results
Hélder Pessoa Câmara
7 December 2018
We must address the causes of what’s wrong with a candid mind, rather tha...
We’d do much
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis
6 December 2018
If all we had were a body, we’d still do lots of things. But within this ...
How does this happen?
Saint John of Kronstadt
5 December 2018
Sometimes, people think they’re praying fervently, but, in their heart, t...
A variety of ploys
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
4 December 2018
Conscious, calculated or artificial humility is a mix of numerous and var...
The greatest sickness
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery
3 December 2018
When people fall ill, they go to the doctor to have tests done, to diagno...
Let’s not be overwhelmed
Saint Ambrose of Milan
2 December 2018
‘Don’t let us fall into temptation that we can’t withstand’. As if we wer...