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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...
12th Sunday of Luke (The Ten Lepers)
Monk Agapios
16 January 2022
From the Kyriakodromion of Monk Agapios
These ten lepers, in the most succinct manner, provide an image of the whole of human nature, which was entirely leprous and rendered useless by sin. It had b...
To test us
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
16 January 2022
If we bear all our sorrows, we find grace from the Lord. This is why the Lord allows us to be tested: so that we may be tried and he can weave crowns for us.
Saint Iosif the Hesychast...
Not yet
Saint Thalassios the Libyan
15 January 2022
Freedom from the passions is forgiveness of sins. Those who have not been freed of the passions by grace, haven’t yet found forgiveness.
Saint Thalassios the Libyan...
Bad habits and their cure
Saint Nikodimos the Athonite
14 January 2022
A. Examine the bad habits and proclivities you’ve accumulated over the course of your life. If they’re long-standing, they’ll need more effort if you’re to defeat them; less if they’re more recent. Ju...
There’s a wall
Hieromonk Chrysostomos Stavronikitianos
14 January 2022
Between us and God there’s a wall. This wall is called ‘Me’. This is what doesn’t let God enter. God’s repelled. Get down on your knees, pray, keep a vigil and then see if God doesn’t listen!
H...
He has no need
Saint Theodoros of Edessa
13 January 2022
When we observe Christ’s commandments, we don’t offer him anything, because he needs nothing since he himself confers all good things. What we do is to benefit ourselves by bringing upon us eterna...
What is ‘remembrance of death’ and what does it mean for us?
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
12 January 2022
Remembrance of death (memento mori) helps us to overcome our former self because it brings humility into our soul. When we forget death, we suffer from the illusion that we’re going to be on earth for...
It should require effort and sacrifice
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
12 January 2022
Of course, good works are not of value when ‘they fall as crumbs from our table’. You don’t give alms from the surplus you have, but from something which will cost you a little. Alms-giving also m...
