Words of Life
They’re hard to break
Saint Theodoros of Edessa
20 August 2023
Let’s gird ourselves tightly and labor to carry out the Lord’s commandm...
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The way
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
19 August 2023
Breaking the commandment, which is considered to be repudiation, caused...
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Words from the heart
Saint Basil the Great
18 August 2023
Our words emerge from the superfluity of our heart. Because the heart i...
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Bad language
Saint John Chrysostom
17 August 2023
If you want to show that you don’t like using foul language, then don’t...
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Works of belief
Saint Mark the Ascetic
16 August 2023
When you hear the scripture that ‘he will render to each according to t...
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We’d be mad
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
15 August 2023
In the Church we carry out research. The best researchers are the saint...
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Sloth
Saint John of the Ladder
14 August 2023
Sloth is the first child of verbosity
Saint John of the Ladder...
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That’s how things are
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
13 August 2023
We can’t reject God, because, in order to deny something, we have to be...
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It disappears
Saint Isaiah the Anchorite
12 August 2023
When the mind is freed of any hope in this world, that’s when sin dies ...
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Indescribable consolatio
Elder Germanos Stavrovouniotis
11 August 2023
Just the mention in our prayers of the most holy name of God, our most ...
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