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No to distortion
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
21 February 2022
As a qualitative value, education must be a matter of rebirth of the heart, of spiritual transfiguration. Education shouldn’t aim at either productivity or at meeting the needs of the state. It sh... 
“For our Archbishop…”
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
20 February 2022
On the Feast of the Nativity (Christmas Day), we join the shepherds of Bethlehem and the wise magi of the East in their rush to the Holy Cave, to worship the King. We are amazed by the extreme humil...
The Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Monk Agapios
20 February 2022
From the Kyriakodromion of Monk Agapios
God is always good and kind to everyone, more than patient with us. But He manifests His great goodness in particular towards those who are sinning. It...
We’re very sorry
Saint Mark the Ascetic
20 February 2022
A mortal sin is one over which we don’t repent. No-one is as good and merciful as God is. But even he can’t forgive the unrepentant. We’re very sorry when we commit sins, yet we accept the root ca...
Homily on the Sunday of the Prodigal
Saint Justin Popovich
19 February 2022
Behold the Gospel which concerns the mind and body of each of us. It’s the Gospel of loving-kindness. It’s the Savior’s wonderful parable, in which he depicts the whole of our life. Mine, yours, that ...
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
19 February 2022
19 February 1984
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
Time and again I have occasion to preach on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, on the story of the Publican and the Pharisee, an...
Painful progression
Saint Sophrony of Essex
19 February 2022
At the beginning of repentance the dominant feeling is one of sorrow, but we soon see that the energy of a new life is entering us, one which produces an amazing alteration of the mind. This movem...
To defeat us
Saint Isaac the Syrian
18 February 2022
When we start to have great ideas about ourselves, God allows greater temptations to come upon us and defeat us, so that we’re humbled and seek his help again.
Saint Isaac the Syrian...
The mind at prayer seeks union with the heart
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
17 February 2022
The gates of the senses have been closed. The tongue is silent, the eyes shut and the ears hear nothing of what’s happening all around. The mind casts off the yoke of worldly thoughts, clothes itself ...
“For this holy house…”
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
17 February 2022
The Deacon, continuing the "Litany of Peace" in the Divine Liturgy, exclaims: "For this holy house and for those who enter it with faith, reverence, and the fear of God, let us pray to the Lord". We ...
