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Respect for Nature
Dr. Haralambos Bousias, Great Hymnographer of the Church of the Alexandrians
27 May 2022
Humankind and nature are directly interdependent. The smooth and harmonious workings of creation depend on our respect for the natural environment. The disharmony we see in the natural world today is ... 
Like a blessing or a plague
Elder Christodoulos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousi
27 May 2022
Every evil which taints the social sphere is a personal evil. Virtue is cultivated within the human person. Evil is born within the human person. And it spreads from the person throughout th...
An Eastern Fable
Vasileios Trallianos
26 May 2022
When I was in Germany once, I heard a sermon by a famous German missionary and preacher. It included a profound and symbolic narrative taken from a collection of legends and myths of the East. I later...
Despise and hate
Saint John of Kronstadt
26 May 2022
Consider yourself the worst and most spiritually weak of all people. Despise and hate yourself and your sins and be lenient towards others. Even if they’re sinners, honor and love them for God’s s...
How to react to doubts about the faith
Saint Theophan the Recluse
25 May 2022
At one time or another, everyone has doubts about the faith. These can easily be dismissed, however, by opposing thoughts which reveal the truth about the divine revelation regarding both the cosmos a...
It’ll become their life, as well
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
25 May 2022
Our end-point, our eschatological destination is adoption by God. The life of God will become our own life and what God is by nature, we will become by grace.
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos...
Remembrance of God’s Blessings
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
24 May 2022
The problems, sins and mistakes we have in our lives are many and various. At times a sense of disappointment weighs upon our hearts. We wonder whether this is how life’s going to continue. Is there a...
You can’t get enough
Archimandrite Symeon Krayiopoulos †
24 May 2022
No matter how fallen a person is, no matter how deprived of love, there’s still some love, an impulse, let’s say, within them. That love should be directed towards God. It should embrace the whole...
Encounter with Eternal Life: ‘Whoever drinks of the water which I will give, will never thirst again’
Sotirios Theologou
23 May 2022
Today, Saint John the Evangelist describes for us a very interesting encounter. Before we see the meeting, let’s look at the person who was to meet Christ.
The woman whom the Evangelist mentions was ...
Monastic Conversations
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
23 May 2022
Hesychasm is a spiritual phenomenon, the quintessence of the ascetical tradition in the Orthodox Church. Through the practice of hesychasm, the soul of man is ‘fattened’ by the grace of God, it receiv...
