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The misunderstanding’s resolved
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of Our Lady the Guide, Portaria
21 January 2022
If a misunderstanding occurs among us, each nun involved should say to herself: ‘Hold on, are you so imperturbable, so without passions, so without faults, that it’s right for you to judge others?... 
Give me security
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
20 January 2022
‘The devil hates any message or attitude that keep us safe from evil’ (Abba Dorotheos)
One of the main requirements we have as people is the need to feel safe and secure, not only in our relationship...
Our gods
Saint John of Kronstadt
20 January 2022
We call the Lord ‘God’, but in reality we have our own gods. This is why we don’t do the will of God, but submit to the will and desires of our flesh, our heart and our passions. Our gods are our ...
What does it mean to become a Cyrenian?
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
19 January 2022
No one has gone through life without ever being worried, hurt, or driven to tears. As children of Adam, all of us, young and old, have to live with the consequences of the fall of our forefather, prec...
They gain the ability
19 January 2022
Through constant repentance and asceticism, Christians seek to overcome the sin and egotism which riddle society. The more we’re cleansed of our passions, the more we acquire the possibility of re...
Why are there expressions in the Old Testament which present God as ‘vengeful’?
Archimandrite Iakovos Kanakis
18 January 2022
Study of the Old Testament requires discernment and a firm grounding in the knowledge of the holy books. You might, for example, be surprised by many of the expressions you read in Leviticus, precisel...
That’s when they say something
Elder Vasilios Gontikakis, former Abbot of the Monastery of Iviron
18 January 2022
Very often, what we say is limp and weak. If we want to transmit what we’re saying and make it lively, it has to be incarnate. When, with what you say, you give your flesh and blood to other peopl...
The Ingratitude of the 9 Lepers, an Enduring Passion
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
17 January 2022
Jesus was going towards Jerusalem when, outside a small town, he encountered a group of ten lepers who entreated him loudly: ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us’ (Luke 17, 13).
Leprosy was a terrible di...
A stone thrown at God and your neighbor
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
17 January 2022
‘If you align your will with rights, you won’t make the progress you should’ (Abba Dorotheos).
The will is a gift from God to us. Those who distort the teaching of the Church and say that God wants u...
They become tape-recorders
Saint Paisios the Athonite
17 January 2022
Nowadays, from all the studying they do, people end up as tape-recorders and they fill their cassettes with superfluous things. But, according to Abba Isaac, teaching without action is a ‘legacy o...
