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Don’t fall into despair
Saint John of Kronstadt
18 November 2021
Whatever passion the demons attack you with, be patient and don’t fall into despair. Face it with meekness and humility and don’t lose your temper. Don’t allow any sense of impatience, envy, compl... 
They give off rays
Saint Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
17 November 2021
The grace of the Holy Spirit makes people emit rays. But the other people need to have good receivers if they’re to understand this. We should always have our eyes fixed on heaven. Then nothing wi...
God’s Anger
Archimandrite Iakovos Kanakis
16 November 2021
It’s not uncommon that concepts associated with the Bible are misinterpreted, almost ‘abused’, to their detriment. The misinterpretation of a single word can lead to mistaken notions and conclusions, ...
Our thoughts govern our life
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
16 November 2021
‘It’s one thing to pray against negative thoughts; it’s another to argue with them; and it’s another to exterminate them and leave them behind you’ (Saint John the Sinaite, Ladder of Divine Ascent, di...
More or less impossible
Saint Makarios of Optina
16 November 2021
Having faith doesn’t mean only that we believe in God as our Creator. It also means that we recognize his never-failing providence and his concern for our good, even in the most insignificant aspe...
We weren’t born to die but to live eternally
George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
15 November 2021
God is love (1 Jn. 4, 16). And we people are created ‘in the image and likeness’ of the God of love. But the God of love is also fair-minded. He respects our freedom and doesn’t set before us us his p...
Can sins be forgiven through vows?
Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia
15 November 2021
The age we live in is full of contradictions. On the one hand, people are stubbornly indifferent towards their relationship with God, but on the other, references to superstitions, zodiac charts and...
He’s insignificant
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
15 November 2021
This disillusionment, the existential void, the loneliness felt by post-modern people is mainly due to the fact that they don’t know how to pray, they don’t devote any time during the course of th...
The Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10, 25-37)
Metropolitan Dionysios of Servia and Kozani †
14 November 2021
‘Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus’. This ‘lawyer’ approached Jesus Christ, supposedly to ask what he should do to inherit eternal life, but in fact out of a desire to provoke Him. The lawyer...
They tarnish it
Abbess Theosemni, the Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete
14 November 2021
Unless the heart is cleansed, prayer isn’t easy. Judgements, selfishness, fits of anger- these are what besmirch the heart.
Abbess Theosemni, Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete....
