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As much as we can
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of Our Lady the Guide, Portaria
22 December 2021
As far as possible we should have great kindness, great love so as to get through the trials and tribulations that come upon us.
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of the Odigitria, Portaria... 
The Iambic Katavasies of Christmas, (Odes 1 and 3)
21 December 2021
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The Iambic Katavasia is difficult to understand*, because it is written in iambic meter and is a poetic text, with all the difficulties such a text, particularly an ecclesiastical one, presents.
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If it were a mockery
Saint John the Damascan
21 December 2021
What God wants is for us to do good to others, both in this life and the next. If he didn’t see this as the right thing, he wouldn’t have given us the right to remember the dead in the divine litu...
Prayer in Church
Saint John Chrysostom
20 December 2021
Saint John says:
‘Don’t make such a mistake, my good friend. Because if you do, you’re harming yourself. We know that everyone has the right to make their prayer at home. That’s true. But nobody ever...
The Advent of God on Earth and in our Lives
Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis
20 December 2021
The feast of Christmas, which is approaching, invites us to experience the mystery of God’s coming to earth. This advent is a fundamental starting-point which deepens the meaning of our life and exis...
Don’t be sad and bitter, Christ is here
Saint Nikodimos the Athonite
20 December 2021
You should know that you’ll often feel troubled and won’t experience that holy peace, sweet solitude and beloved freedom within you. And sometimes, the movement of your heart may raise dust that hinde...
It’s different
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
20 December 2021
In humanism, the aim of education is to humanize people. But the aim of a Christian training is different. The ‘archetype’ at which our educational progress aims is Christ, as God and human, and t...
The heart suffers
Saint John of Kronstadt
19 December 2021
When people are ill, they face bodily weaknesses or they’re tried in a variety of ways. In the beginning, they can’t feel their heart burning with love for God. In sickness and trials, the heart s...
Our Home in Heaven (Heb. 11, 9-10, 32-40)
Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos
19 December 2021
The Sunday before Christmas is full of names. Both in the Epistle, but particularly in the Gospel reading, there are long lists presented of people who preceded the Lord Jesus, and who, despite the va...
The difference between religion and the Christian faith
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
18 December 2021
Our religion is love, fervent love, enthusiasm, madness, divine longing. All of that’s within us. The acquisition of this is something demanded by the soul.
For many people, though, religion’s a stru...
