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They fall elsewhere
Saint Isaac the Syrian
16 June 2022
Those who consider their transgressions to be minor and insignificant will fall into other ones, greater and worse. The way they’re going, they’ll be punished seven times more harshly.
Saint Is... 
Typical features
Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
15 June 2022
Flattery and hypocrisy are characteristics of petty people, in whose heart the devil abides, teaching them lies and hypocrisy in order to lead them astray.
Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk...
It gives meaning
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
14 June 2022
The Gospel message of sanctity can be applied by any person whatsoever, irrespective of age and social class. The struggle for the attainment of sanctity gives authentic meaning to our existence.
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It can’t be described
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
13 June 2022
Sanctity is attained within the heart of a person, and you can’t describe someone’s heart, since it’s a place which is a temple where an everlasting and uninterrupted act of worship to the presenc...
Pentecost
Ioannis Foundoulis Professor of the Theological School A. U. Th. †
12 June 2022
‘We celebrate Pentecost and the visitation of the Spirit, the time appointed for the promise and the fulfillment of hope. How great is this mystery? It is both vast and most venerable. Therefore, we c...
It slowly wanes
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
12 June 2022
Love in Christ never changes. Secular love lasts a short time and gradually wanes, whereas divine love constantly grows and deepens. Any other love can bring people to despair. Divine love, howeve...
On the day of Pentecost
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
11 June 2022
On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came and instituted a feast that remains for ever. The coming of the Spirit reconfigured the time of our life making it all into a feast, imparting grace to us...
Τhe Pentecost’s Saturday for Souls
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
11 June 2022
Our holy Church offers us another opportunity to remember and honor our dead people, our beloved persons who passed away, and all her members by whom we are in communion through God' s love and the gr...
Then we’ll understand
Abbess Gavriïlia
11 June 2022
When we surrender completely to the power and love of God, then we’ll understand that everything happens because God wills it or because God allows it.
Abbess Gavriilia Papayanni...
The Gift of Pentecost and the Reproving of the Holy Spirit
Archimandrite Peter, Abbot of Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex UK
10 June 2022
The Lord Jesus said that the Holy Spirit reproves the world ‘of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment’, and this is not a reproving unto perdition, but unto life. If the Spirit of God is ‘in all ...
