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That’s the point Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 5 December 2021 The aim of theanthropic education is the same as the goal of the Church, which is none other than our sanctification. Guardians and protectors of this education, which seeks our glorification not ...

The greatest madness Saint John Chrysostom 4 December 2021 You should come to Holy Communion in fear and trembling, with a clear conscience and having fasted and prayed. You shouldn’t make a noise, nor push or tread on other people. That is the greatest m...

We should bomb them Elder Gavriil Tsafos † 3 December 2021 We should bombard people with our love. Elder Gavriil Tsafos...

The only true healer Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 2 December 2021 ‘Just as the darkness doesn’t disperse unless there’s light, in the same way sickness of the soul can’t be avoided unless the healer of our ailments comes and we’re united to him’. (Saint Symeon the N...

Something like the evil eye Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 2 December 2021 When we look askance at somebody, some wicked force comes out from us and is transferred to the other person, just as the voice is transmitted through sound waves, and they really do suffer some i...

I’m educated so I have a right to … everything Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 1 December 2021 ‘Educated people are very difficult, because they have strong inclinations towards individualism. I’d even say this: the educated among us won’t stand for any adverse comment on their behavior, but in...

Then you’re wise Saint Joseph the Hesychast 1 December 2021 When you don’t sin, don’t lie, don’t plot against your neighbor, then you have fear of God. Then you’re wise, you understand God and, in order not to sadden him, you don’t sin. Saint Iosif the ...

The greatest love Saint Silouan the Athonite 30 November 2021 Our Lord loves us as his children and his love is greater than that of a mother. Because a mother might forget her child, but the Lord will never forget us. And if the Lord himself hadn’t given th...

As a phenomenon Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 29 November 2021 On the one hand there is the secularization which is threatening the Church, external, moralistic and Puritan paradigms which are making Orthodoxy a religion. One the other there are the cerebral...

To elevate us Elder Moisis the Athonite † 28 November 2021 Out of love, Christ added human nature to his divine nature, without sin; not to absorb it, but to present us with the real human being and, through his glorious resurrection, to elevate us to the...

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