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Why we sing the Great Canon
Fr. Ioannis Sourlingas
6 April 2022
My soul, my soul arise. Why are you sleeping? The end draws nigh and soon you will be troubled. Take heed, then, that Christ your God may spare you. For he is everywhere present and fills all things.
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It embraces everything
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
6 April 2022
God’s love is immeasurable and embraces everything. What’s different about this love is its inner quality: God can be glad and can pay the price of his love on the cross.
Metropolitan Anthony (...
‘Lord I believe, help my unbelief’
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
5 April 2022
When the Lord is asked to cure a young man with a demon, the first thing he does is examine the faith of the father who’s asking for the healing, because belief is a prerequisite for a miracle. But wh...
Shout
Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis
5 April 2022
When you say the Jesus prayer, you should think, at the beginning, that you’re in hell and shouting and weeping, begging for God’s mercy, though not at all afflicted with despair, hopelessness or ...
Scales of Justice (3)
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
4 April 2022
5.The Cross of Christ, the outstanding symbol of our faith, doesn’t exist only to distinguish believers from unbelievers. Unbelieving non-Christians are, indeed, as tormented by the Cross as the dev...
‘The Fiery Sword and the Lord’s Cross’
Theodore Rokas
4 April 2022
The fiery sword no longer guards the gate of Eden, for it has been mysteriously quenched by the wood of the Cross. The sting of death and the victory of hell have been vanquished; for you, my Savior,...
A simple eye
Saint John of Kronstadt
4 April 2022
When you pray or do any other task in your life, avoid suspicious thoughts, doubts and demonic fantasies. Your spiritual eye should be simple, so that that when you pray, go about your tasks or yo...
The Ascetic Life (4th Sunday of Great Lent)
Metropolitan Agathangelos of Fanari
3 April 2022
For secular people today, focusing on an ascetic saint is a problem. Of what relevance is the ascetic figure of Saint John, the author of the Ladder, who, with tears, with fasting and with spiritual a...
Each word carefully.
Abbess Theosemni, the Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete
3 April 2022
We should read the Gospel carefully, looking at each word. It’s so beautiful. You see in it what Christ did, what loving-kindness he had, how he treated people with love. Did he, for example, see ...
The whole time
Abba Pimen
2 April 2022
People need to have humility and the fear of God all the time, in the same way as they have to breathe.
Abba Pimen...
