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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...

Lapse and Recovery: the Experience of Christians Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 19 May 2022 ‘As often as you fall, get back up and you’ll be saved’. This is one of the best-known sayings in the Church, but one which we don’t find in precisely those words in the New Testament. It may, as reg...

At the Midpoint of the Feast… Protopresbyter Antonios Christou 19 May 2022 is the feast of Mid-Pentecost, which marks the completion of exactly 25 days from Easter. That is to say, we’re half-way towards celebrating the feast of Pentecost. In Byzantine times, the feast of ...

As some people think Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 19 May 2022 The illumination that people receive through constant communion and union with Christ isn’t the result of intellectual study, as some people believe, but it’s actual and affects their very being. ...

Freedom’s Hideaway Metropolitan Meletios of Nikopolis † 18 May 2022 On the evening of Great Friday, we begin the service with a rather strange tropario. It’s a hymn which is joyful rather than mournful. Not a lament, but a hymn of praise: ‘God is the Lord and has appe...

The First-Born of the Dead and the Land of the Living (4) George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 18 May 2022 God doesn’t impose himself on people in a high-handed manner. The kingdom of God isn’t a kingdom of imperious authority but of interactive love and freedom. It’s a communion which offers boundless l...

Midpentecost Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 18 May 2022 ‘I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely’. During Great Lent, to a certain degree, we taste of Christ’s death. In the middle of this period, the Church instit...

Despise and hate Saint John of Kronstadt 18 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 sak...

When we don’t justify Abbess Theosemni, the Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete 17 May 2022 Humility manifest itself when we don’t try to justify ourselves. Abbess Theosemni of the Holy Monastery of Chrysopygi, Hania, Crete...

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