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It all starts here
Saint Justin Popovich
27 April 2022
Every thought and every feeling gradually takes people to paradise or hell. If the thought is rational then it links the person concerned to the divine Word, with the most sublime Thought, with th...
Him, Jesus Christ
Saint John Chrysostom
26 April 2022
Jesus Christ was called human, he was called the son of man, he was called the way, he was called a rock…
Why was he called the way? To teach you that we ascend to the Father by him.
Why was he call...
Oration 35, On Holy Easter
Saint Gregory the Theologian
26 April 2022
XXIV. If you are Simon Cyreneaus, take up the Cross and follow. If you are crucified with him as a robber, acknowledge God out of gratitude. If even he was numbered among the transgressors for you an...
The Death of God, my Death and the Resurrection
Sister Parakliti, Holy Skete of Saint Mary Magdalene, in Liti
26 April 2022
The grandeur of Great Friday and Great Saturday lies in the fact that human reason is incapable of comprehending that the Son of God died. In a war, for example, we can evaluate how tragic the situati...
Word for Easter 2022
Archimandrite Peter, Abbot of Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex UK
26 April 2022
The Almighty Jesus showed us the only path that leads to the Resurrection: to accept and suffer afflictions, even deadening, for the sake of His holy Name worthy of all veneration, for the sake of obe...
He’ll provide the solution
Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis
26 April 2022
If you have problem, say ‘Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me’. This prayer will provide a solution to your problem, a solution to the predicament in which you find yourself.
Saint Efraim Kato...
They’re all pointless
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
25 April 2022
The core of the ascetic endeavors we make for the Lord is attention. Without proper attention, all these efforts are pointless, dead. If you want salvation, you have to pay careful attention to yo...
Resurrection: the power of his love
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
24 April 2022
Christ has risen!
What message could be stronger or more telling than that?
What’s worse for human existence than death?
And if ‘Jesus the Nazarene’ doesn’t redeem us from death, what are we suppos...
‘The Day of the Resurrection’
Greek Byzantine Choir
24 April 2022
'The Day of the Resurrection', the doxastiko at Lauds, Easter Matins, set to music by Iakovos Protopsaltis and recorded at a concert in Ghent which took place on 19/4/2012.
Recorded by V. Zakharis,...
As you imagine
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of Our Lady the Guide, Portaria
24 April 2022
Be careful how you pass on words to other people. This is a sin that requires a great penance. That is, hearing something, and passing it on to others as you imagine it to be.
Abbess Makrina, t...