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Cheese-Fare Sunday
Monk Agapios
5 March 2022
Behold, my friends, the arena of Holy Lent opens today. Behold, we’ve arrived at the gate of the fast and are about to engage in the warfare of the spirit. We’re now approaching the harbour of salvati... 
I’m a debtor
Saint John of Kronstadt
5 March 2022
At every moment, I’m a debtor to the Lord, spiritually and bodily. Spiritually for my sins; bodily because I receive all the material benefits he gives, such as food, clothing, the air that I brea...
The Fast of the Senses
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
4 March 2022
‘In exactly the same way as we fast from food, so our tongue should also fast from defamation and lies, from idle talk and condemnation of our neighbor, from anger. By the same token, we must fast wit...
They’re wide awake
Saint Amfilokhios Makris
4 March 2022
Don’t neglect your evening prayer. Go to pray with the same disposition as those who are going out to dinner. They’re wide awake and happy to be going. Since you’re about to talk to Christ, don’t ...
The Radical Nature of Christianity (3)
George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
3 March 2022
The wonderful and strange character of Christianity, which was particularly striking during the first Christian centuries, has been dulled over the course of history. The attraction of the world and t...
Our own world
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of Our Lady the Guide, Portaria
3 March 2022
Each of us must cultivate our own world, which will edify us and make us soft as cotton-wool. Between us, ‘our word should emerge with honey and our hand should touch our sister with cotton-wool’ ...
Permanent exclusion
Saint John of the Ladder
2 March 2022
Repentance means renewal of baptism; it means an agreement with God concerning a new life; it means the permanent exclusion of all of the consolations of the flesh; it means self-censure; indiffer...
Our Attitude to Scandal
Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papadakis of the Ecumenical Throne
1 March 2022
The hatred of the devil towards those engaged in the spiritual struggle is well known. This hatred was faced particularly by the fathers in the desert, whose purity, not only of body but also of mind,...
Linked to him
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
1 March 2022
It’s our belief that the only light of hope and optimism as regards the very mediocre quality of life for young people today comes from heaven, from God. Because the Triune God, who is revealed an...
The Fear of Scandal (1 Cor. 8, 8-9, 2)
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
28 February 2022
One week before Great Lent, our Church prepares us for the ‘arena of the virtues’. The main events in which we’re called upon to make a particular effort are fasting and prayer. But these are events w...
