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The Fruit of the Spirit
Fr. Dimitrios Bokos
20 June 2022
The Sunday of All Saints follows the Sunday of Pentecost and is the last day of the Pentikostario. It closes the cycle of movable feasts which starts with the opening of the Triodio, includes the Grea... 
”As you wish, son”
Dioyenis Maltezos
20 June 2022
Visitors: Your blessing, Elder.
Elder: The Lord’s, boys. Welcome to our house. You look very tired from the long walk. Splash your faces with the water from this faucet, get refreshments from the gue...
The Fast of the Holy Apostles
Nikolaos Georgantonis, Theologian
20 June 2022
In our spiritual life, fasting isn’t an end in itself, but a tool that helps to cleanse us and transform our passions so that we can reach the kingdom of God. Among the fasts instituted by the Church ...
All Saints: our luminous signposts
Sophia Bekri, Theologian
20 June 2022
On the first Sunday after Pentecost, the Church honors All the Saints, the bright stars in the spiritual firmament, as instruments of the Spirit and the first fruits of his grace. These are saints of ...
Then woe betide us
Saint Paisios the Athonite
20 June 2022
Wickedness has made significant progress and great changes have taken place over the past few years. But there still remains a good leaven, because of which God has mercy on the rest of the world....
The habit of wickedness
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
19 June 2022
‘Never do something bad as a joke. It often happens that people do something bad as a joke in the beginning, but later, they unwittingly become slaves to it’.
These days, wickedness makes us laugh an...
Internal action
Elder Christodoulos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousi
19 June 2022
Monastic introspection is internal action, in the depths of the human heart. There where ratiocination, meditation, desires, inhibitions and reverie are active. Internal labor means plowing the fi...
So that it’s beautiful
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of Our Lady the Guide, Portaria
18 June 2022
When we’re meticulous with our handiwork, the soul knows contentment and peace. But if we don’t do it well, there’s no order or control. This is why we should always work in the fear of God, with ...
The Church as Theanthropic Institution
Elder Vasilios Gontikakis, former Abbot of the Monastery of Iviron
17 June 2022
Elder Vasileios gave this address in September 1999, but in the light of the increased intrusions and surveillance by supra-national bodies since then, it is even more relevant than it was at that tim...
It’ll avoid any relationship
Saint John of Kronstadt
17 June 2022
Just as God is the instigator of all good, so the devil is the instigator of all evil, the source of sin. A simple heart is illumined by God and knows how to become united with him. It also knows ...
