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The normality of ingratitude Fr. Andreas Agathokleous 28 July 2023 It would seem that human behavior isn’t merely strange, but also unpredictable. It can’t easily be gauged and at times it’s surprising, inasmuch as it’s strange, weird and unnatural. Is it not natura...
You’re human Saint John Chrysostom 28 July 2023 You’re a human person; don’t become a beast. God didn’t give you a mouth so that you could bite, but so that you could provide comfort with your words. Saint John Chrysostom...
The sacrificial self-denial of Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos and his cure by Saint Panteleimon 27 July 2023 (edited by Stelios Koukos) Archimandrite Efraim Vatopaidinos writes that at one time Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos suffered greatly with his stomach. His only food was pasta. He didn’t give himself a disp...
Top marks Archimandrite Ioïl Yiannakopoulos 27 July 2023 God gives the best grades to those who do good simply because they wish to do his will. He gives lower marks to those who do good in order to enjoy paradise. He gives even lower grades to those wh...
Saint Paraskevi (26 July) Metropolitan Dionysios of Servia and Kozani † 26 July 2023 Sanctity is testimony to Jesus Christ. In other words, through their life and death, the saints imitate, witness to and confirm the divine personage and redemptive work of Jesus Christ, which is his t...
The Holy and Blessed Martyr Paraskevi (26 July) Saint Nikodimos the Athonite 26 July 2023 A Saint who passed through fire and iron* This saint lived at the time of Emperor Antoninus, about the year 140. She came from a village near Old Rome and was the daughter of Christian parents, cal...
We make a mistake Abbess Theosemni, the Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete 26 July 2023 Add New When we rebuke someone, we don’t love them. They’ll understand only through love. Not through scowling, anger and reproaches. We make a mistake if we think that other people are to blame. T...
When people are contaminated and when they’re purified Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 25 July 2023 Saint Païsios the Athonite used to say: ‘You know the pitcher? The top part is clear, but towards the bottom, where it touches the earth, there’s a residue. People are like that, as well: the more the...
Love and Mourning in the Human Race (2) Sister Parakliti, Holy Skete of Saint Mary Magdalene, in Liti 25 July 2023 Grief has its own stages. According to the psychological approach , we need to pass through them with care and support. We need time to begin to discover meaning in everything that’s happening to us...
They all worship something Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 25 July 2023 Even atheists believe in god. Not God, but the flesh, the passions, matter; they all worship something. People work at whatever they worship. If you’re a fornicator, if you’re a person of the fles...
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