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Very delicate
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
4 January 2022
People have powers that enable them to transmit good or evil to their surroundings. This is a very delicate matter and needs a lot of careful attention.
Saint Porfyrios Kavsokalyvitis...
Christ as Beggar
Dr. Haralambos Bousias, Great Hymnographer of the Church of the Alexandrians
3 January 2022
Christ, our Redeemer, eternal love, is our merciful God, but also a tenacious beggar. He knocks at the door of our heart and entreats us to give him something. What does he ask for? He beseeches us: ‘...
Taking stock
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
3 January 2022
At the turn of the year, it’s customary to take stock. We look back at what’s happened, the pleasant and the difficult, the beautiful and the ugly, in an effort to consign to oblivion whatever hurt us...
Joseph’s Silence
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th.
3 January 2022
If it be true that the language of the future age will be silence, then Joseph, the betrothed of the Virgin, is a model of the person in this future age. Not a single word of his is preserved in the G...
Great value
Elder Gavriil, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Apostle Barnabas
3 January 2022
It’s of great value, but also our duty, for each of us to save a soul in our society, in the deep darkness of wickedness.
Elder Gavriil, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Apostle Barnabas...
It can’t be explained
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
3 January 2022
By continuing in repentance and persisting in the Jesus prayer, the Orthodox faithful mold their heart so that it becomes receptive to vision of the Light. Through the vision of the uncr...
Sunday before Theophany: The Work of Christ Requires Preparation
Archimandrite Symeon Krayiopoulos †
2 January 2022
Today’s Gospel reading (Mark 1, 1-8) is from the beginning of Mark’s Gospel. ‘The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it has been written in the prophets’…, etc. Thereafter the...
What is the meaning of New Year?
Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios
2 January 2022
Beloved brothers and sisters,
Today is the beginning of the new civil year and we joyfully celebrate the divine Liturgy and the Doxology. All over the world, events have been organized with an array ...
All to the good
Saint Silouan the Athonite
2 January 2022
If a people or state are suffering, then everyone must repent and God will arrange everything for the best.
Saint Silouan the Athonite...
Not a moment’s peace
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
1 January 2022
Apart from the external struggle that Christians face, there’s also the internal one: on the one hand, the fight against the former self and sin, which comes in many forms; and, on the other, agai...





