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They can’t stand it
Elder Gavriil Tsafos †
18 March 2022
People today can’t bear joy.
Elder Gavriil Tsafos... 
Patience with fortitude
17 March 2022
If you’re humble, it means that, because of your sins, you think it’s fair for other people to humiliate you, to persecute you and even to strike you. If you’re meek, this means that you bear inju...
Proper Faith
Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos
16 March 2022
It’s a distressing observation but our era has forgotten God. Or rather, because it suits it, it’s turned its back on him, particularly in those places where technological progress, that is better too...
Fight bravely
Saint Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
16 March 2022
Prayer’s a gift. God grants it where he sees fervor and humility. Fight bravely against the malicious devil who envies you. Bear whatever befalls you with fortitude, patience and faith. Don’t allo...
Much more so, in fact
Abba Kassianos
15 March 2022
We often delude ourselves into thinking we’re patient and meek because we don’t deign to respond to a barbed comment from another person. But we should be aware that, while we’re maintaining this ...
What should we keep in mind and do in the current political situation?
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
14 March 2022
‘We do not know everything about the conflicts of this world, nor is it necessary to know. We just pray with a compassionate heart for the peace of the world and for all. We do not take sides, because...
They’re not emotions
Elder Moses of the Holy Mount Athos
14 March 2022
The gifts aren’t simply emotions, the results of some beautiful thoughts. They’re God’s grace, his blessing, divine gifts to those who humbly strive, to Christians who bear their cross and are cru...
The First Sunday in Lent: Sunday of Orthodoxy
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
13 March 2022
On the first Sunday in Lent, commonly known as the Sunday of Orthodoxy, our Church honours and acknowledges the holy struggles and the victory of Orthodoxy, which triumphed over all the heresies from ...
We’ll be liberated
Saint Mark the Ascetic
13 March 2022
We should reject with all our strength the pleasures and pains of this life and free ourselves completely of all consideration of the passions and every demonic ploy. It’s because of pleasure that...
The careless and devious eye
Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian
12 March 2022
The Fathers of the Church consider that the eyes are the gates or windows of the soul. It’s through them that the fiery darts of the evil one enter. In the past there was much to be seen, and there is...
