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The greatest tragedy Elder Moisis the Athonite † 3 February 2022 Sanctification is the aim of our existence. We were made to become saints. We shouldn’t forget this. Failure in this endeavor is the greatest tragedy for us. Elder Moïsis the Athonite...
The Feast of Candlemas. The Reception of the Lord Archimandrite Theodosios Martzoukhos 2 February 2022 Already we’re in the second month of the New Year. And we begin with the feast of the Reception of Christ, on February 2. It’s a very great feast. Christ is received by a man for whom the expectation ...
They suffer as you do Saint John of Kronstadt 2 February 2022 You demand of others that they remedy their faults quickly, but you’re in no hurry to do anything about your own. The others suffer just as you do. They drag their feet over their sins and passion...
The Feast of Christ’s Reception as Fulfillment of the Ritual of Mosaic Law Theodore Rokas 1 February 2022 The recent feast, the Reception of the Lord, is the feast which is celebrated exactly forty days after that of His Nativity. The name of the feast in Greek comes from a verb meaning ‘to go out and mee...
On Inequality Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 1 February 2022 Inequality is wiser and is preferable to equality. Inequality was placed as the very foundation of the created world. We should rejoice over this inequality and not rebel against it, because it was pu...
Out of ardent love Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 1 February 2022 Christians patiently take up their cross and don’t complain about God. Humbly, with downcast eyes the bear their own cross to the end of their days, following the Lord, Jesus Christ. They do it fo...
The Reception of the Lord in the Temple (Candlemas) Metropolitan Nikodemos (Vallindras) of Patras † 31 January 2022 With great emotion, Symeon the righteous holds the divine infant in his arms. His heart is inundated with joy. His gaze is fixed upon the heavens and his lips move devoutly, in the fervent prayer whic...
On those who have no patience Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 31 January 2022 ‘Wretched and pitiful are those who have no patience, because it is against them that the ‘Woe’ in Holy Scripture is directed. It says woe to those who have lost patience. So really, woe betide those ...
Honor and Responsibility Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos 31 January 2022 It’s an open secret that even the smallest amount of praise concerning any real or, more commonly, imagined gifts we may have is almost always the occasion for conceit and vanity. Imagine if we heard ...
A disaster for everyone Abba Kassianos 31 January 2022 We’re becoming great criminals if for no other reason than we selfishly try to conceal our indifference, so as to appear to be in the right. And we do so at a time when we see our neighbors in dan...
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