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Saint Anthimos, the Fool for Christ (+1867) 9 December 2021 Saint Anthimos was from Sofia, Bulgaria, where he was a married, parish-priest. In 1841, after his wife reposed, he went to Mount Athos and was tonsured as a monk at Simonopetra Monastery. He began t...
It means that I pray Abbess Gavriïlia 9 December 2021 When I love another person with all my soul, it means that I pray for them. Those who have this experience are in Paradise. Abbess Gavriilia Papayianni...
Saint Patapios of Thebes, the Wonderworker Metropolitan Dionysios of Servia and Kozani † 8 December 2021 The yard of the Monastery of Saint Patapios at Loutraki, Greece Today the Church celebrates and honours the memory of the blessed Patapios the Desert-Dweller. This is the title accorded to the saint...
Let’s break the chains Saint Ephraim the Syrian 8 December 2021 While we’re in this life, we have the power and authority from God to break by ourselves the chains of the desires of the enemy, to cast off the burden of our sins through repentance and to be sav...
The icon of the Oysterman Archimandrite Nikon Koutsidis 7 December 2021 In the icon of the Holy Monastery of Stavronikita, there is a mosaic icon of Saint Nicholas, the patron of the monastery, which has an eight-centimeter long vertical split on the forehead. This is fro...
Not even air Elder Aimilianos Simonopetritis † 7 December 2021 God knows when there’s room in your heart. If you haven’t received something yet, it means that your heart’s not big enough for it. Your heart’s packed tightly, as when you force lots of things in...
The joy of the miracle (10th Sunday of Luke) Metropolitan Agathangelos of Fanari 6 December 2021 The scene described in the Gospel reading for the 10th Sunday of Luke is both moving and revealing, as regards the intentions and sincerity of ordinary people and the attitude of our Lord towards them...
Saint Nicholas, the Saint of the Seas Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian 6 December 2021 Saint Nicholas was born at the south-east corner of Asia Minor, in the town of Patara, in the 3rd century (at the time of the persecutions of Diocletian and Maximian) of devout and rich parents, who h...
Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra 6 December 2021 Saint Methodius, Patriarch of Constantinople towards the middle of the ninth century, wrote a life of Saint Nicholas in which he declares that "up to the present the life of the distinguished shephe...
The essence lies elsewhere Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol 6 December 2021 Humility isn’t a matter of whether we’re prepared to dwell in a manger or in a stable. The essence lies elsewhere and it’s elsewhere that Christ wants us to be like him: by becoming meek and humbl...
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