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It does harm
23 May 2022
We should see each thing in a good way. We shouldn’t see anything bad in other people. Just a look or a sigh can have an effect on other people. Even the slightest display of disappointment can do... 
Sunday of the Samaritan woman (John 4:5-42)
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
22 May 2022
This Gospel reading is exceptional, loaded with great and sublime truths which the Lord condescended to impart to a dissolute woman, a heretic who had led a reckless life and hailed from Samaria, an a...
Moved by love
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
22 May 2022
God is love. And motivated by love, wishing to pass on the wealth of his love, he created all things.
Saint Iosif the Hesychast...
Sermon on the Apostolic reading for the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman (Acts 11:19-30)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
21 May 2022
For today’s passage from the Acts of the Apostles, we hear about the magnificent founding of the Great Church of Antioch in a period of harsh persecution.
After Our Lord’s Crucifixion, the hatred of ...
They make them wretched and miserable
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
21 May 2022
Unfortunately, those who neglect their heart have been deprived of all good things, and fallen into a multitude of wickednesses. They’ve cast off joy and have been filled with bitterness, sorrow a...
Homily for Sts. Constantine and Helen, equal to the Apostles
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
21 May 2022
On May 21st, the Church commemorates two saints with particular gratitude, for the great services rendered to God. They are St. Constantine, and his mother St. Helen.
St. Constantine was born in the...
The last time Saint Porfyrios entered the Holy Mountain
Fr. Evaggelos Papanikolaou, Doctor
20 May 2022
The story is told by Fr. Evangelos. As a young man, he often visited the Holy Mountain. On one occasion, after 1990, he was on the caique, the little boat that goes from Dafni to the Lavra. The weathe...
Our Condition and Other People
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
20 May 2022
‘People benefit from or are harmed by their own condition. Nobody harms other people’ (Abba Dorotheos).
The easy answer to the problems of life is that other people are to blame. They don’t understan...
It bothers and chokes you
Saint John of Kronstadt
20 May 2022
Blasphemy against sanctity, as well as wicked carnal thoughts, comes from the devil. When the stench of hell bothers and chokes you, believe firmly, unshakeably, that it’s the work of the devil an...
I’ll give an account
Hieromonk Chrysostomos Stavronikitianos
20 May 2022
Each soul will give an account before the Lord. I’ll speak of my deeds and you’ll speak of yours. And the account will be detailed.
Hieromonk Chrysostomos Stavronikitianos...
