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The Case of Fools for Christ
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
26 January 2022
Among the multitude of the saints, that is the people who loved Christ ‘with all their heart’ and who expressed this love through denial of the self and acceptance of their cross, there are the so-cal...
Pay no attention
Saint John of Kronstadt
26 January 2022
Pay no attention to the slanders of the enemy against other people, to his hatred, his wickednesses and his selfish actions. Look upon everyone as images of God and behave towards them with simpli...
Return to Civility
Triandafillos Sermetzis
25 January 2022
For a good number of years now there’s been a virus going round infecting societies. It’s the illusion that ignorance is as compelling as knowledge. This means that, in order for people take a stand i...
That’s when it acquires meaning
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
25 January 2022
We shouldn’t see the sorrows of life here through the prism of evanescent reason, but through the prism of eternity. Then our life acquires meaning and the significance of sorrows in our life is r...
Light and Lights
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
24 January 2022
‘Because the Lord has prepared it to be his throne and dwelling-place, the soul which has been granted spiritual union with the light of Christ and has been illumined by the moral beauty of his inexpr...
On why we must reproach ourselves
Abba Dorotheos
24 January 2022
Let us investigate how it is that sometimes, if a person hears something unkind, they’re able to let it go without becoming upset, whereas at other times, they hear something and are immediately offen...
The Blind Man in Jericho
Metropolitan of Gortyn and Megalopolis, Ieremias †
24 January 2022
Today’s Gospel tells us of the miracle of the cure of the blind man in Jericho. This man was not only blind, he was also poor. This is why he begged. ‘He sat at the side of the road, begging’, as the ...
You’ve got no right
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
24 January 2022
Christians should glorify God in body and spirit. Both belong to God, so you have no authority to dishonor or debase them. You must treat them as holy and sacred vessels, with all gratitude.
Sa...
14th Sunday of Luke: Physical or Spiritual Blindness?
Protopresbyter Nikolaos Patsalos
23 January 2022
14th Sunday of Saint Luke today, and we’ve now entered the month of Christmas. Jesus enters Jericho and comes across a suffering person whose affliction is blindness. It’s a terrible cross for him not...
It all disappears
Abbess Theosemni, the Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete
23 January 2022
Whenever you have a bad thought you don’t want, say ‘Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus Christ’ three times and it’ll all disappear.
Abbess Theosemni, Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete...