Words of Life
There’s no getting round it
Saint Theophan the Recluse
27 December 2020
Malice cuts us off from God. The inevitable consequence of this severan... 
Free health care
Elder Ephraim of Arizona †
26 December 2020
Monasticism is a free health care center. It’s God’s clinic, where peop...
Prayers support
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis
25 December 2020
Pray all the time and have your hope in God. You’ll be helped by the gr...
It’s not easy
Abba Pimen
24 December 2020
If you want to uproot the passions, it’ll hurt and you’ll bleed.
Abb...
The golden link
Saint John of Kronstadt
23 December 2020
Prayer is the golden link. It joins Christians, who are wayfaring stran...
One purpose
Elder Cleopa Ilie
22 December 2020
For Christians, there’s only one point to sorrows: atonement for our si...
Like small children
Saint John Chrysostom
21 December 2020
If you’re a Christian, you don’t have a home on earth. If the whole of ...
We just have to be constant
Metropolitan Pavlos of Aleppo
15 December 2020
God doesn’t always respond to our prayers in terms of human reason. He ...
It’s the best thing to do
Saint Isaac the Syrian
14 December 2020
When you meet people, force yourself to esteem them more than they actu...
What do they reject?
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
13 December 2020
Monastics leave the world because they reject its unwholesome spirit. B...
