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Disgust for them 29 June 2022 We should confess our sins more regularly. When we openly admit and confess them, we scourge them and feel greater disgust for them. Just remember the wretched state to which sin has brought you a...
Saint Peter the Apostle: A Great Personality – I Apostolos Glavinas, Professor 28 June 2022 Peter was born in Bethsaida, close to Lake Gennesaret, where, along with his brother Andrew, who also became an Apostle, they plied the trade of fisherman, together with two other Apostles, James and ...
It’s a sign Saint Maximos the Confessor 28 June 2022 It’s a sign of true knowledge if we endure sorrows with patience and don’t condemn other people for what we’ve brought on ourselves. Sorrows visit us either as constructive instruction, to erase p...
Preparation and Decision Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos 27 June 2022 One of the main characteristics of people today is caution, hesitation, a fear of taking decisions. And this, of course, isn’t because they have no confidence in themselves. On the contrary, the indiv...
John, the ‘doer’ of the word Sophia Bekri, Theologian 27 June 2022 ‘The rays of the new grace shone brightly today at your birthday’ sings the hymnographer in the canon of the feast of the glorious and honorable Forerunner. Indeed, the whole Church gladly participate...
They’ll soon be put off Saint Amfilokhios Makris 27 June 2022 Innocence is greater than genius. People who are full of themselves don’t attract others. And if they do, those people will soon be put off. A spiritual connection becomes unbreakable when it enco...
It’s not to be wondered at Elder Gavriil, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Apostle Barnabas 26 June 2022 Death isn’t a strange phenomenon in our life, but the common inheritance of humankind. It’s repose in things imperishable and eternal, after the vanities of this world, the aggravations of life an...
The burning stops Saint Cyril of Jerusalem 25 June 2022 Sin is a terrible evil. Through the sacrament of repentance and confession, our holy Church cures it. If you hold lighted charcoal in your hand for any length of time, you’ll burn yourself. But as...
To Papa-Karan on the crisis in the world Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 24 June 2022 Don’t ask, man of God, where the present crisis comes from and what it means. Who am I that you should ask me about such a great mystery? Saint Gregory the Theologian says, ‘Speak when you have someth...
The Birth of the Honourable Forerunner – 24th of June Metropolitan Agathangelos of Fanari 24 June 2022 The events surrounding the birth of the Honourable Forerunner are mentioned by Saint Luke the Evangelist in the first chapter of his Gospel. He writes that in the days of Herod the king, there live...
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