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An Approach to Orthodox Teaching on Angels
Fr. Christos Klavas
9 November 2021
The angels have a special position in the Orthodox Church and particular honor is accorded to them. Holy Scripture (Old and New Testaments) is full of references to angels, who are presented as playin...
Not affronted.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
9 November 2021
Humble people don’t judge, because they consider themselves the worst of all people anyway. Humility has noble and innate attributes. It doesn’t become angry, it doesn’t judge and it wants nothing...
Saint Nektarios, unappreciated by people, blessed by God
Alexandros Christodoulou, Theologian
9 November 2021
Saint Nektarios (9 November)
Saint Nektarios was born on 1 October 1846, in Silyvria, Thrace, to poor and devout parents. At his baptism he was given the name Anastasios. He learned his first letters...
It’s freezing cold
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
8 November 2021
What a blessing, what bliss it is when there’s ice and snow outside and we quickly get back to a home that’s cozy, either because it has a stove, central heating or a fireplace. We’re blanketed by the...
‘Do not fear; only believe, and she will be saved’
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
8 November 2021
In today’s Gospel reading, Saint Luke the Evangelist mentions two miracles performed by our Lord Jesus Christ: one is the cure of the woman with the issue of blood; and the other is the even more asto...
Wicked aggravation
Saint John of Kronstadt
8 November 2021
If, when you’re trying to carrying our some task for God, you’re subjected to a wicked and manic attack of the passions and the aggravation of the devil, accept these trials as temptations for the...
God moves them forward
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of Our Lady the Guide, Portaria
7 November 2021
Those who are last go forward and those who go to the back God moves forward.
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of the Guide, Portaria...
Don’t set it free
Saint Isaiah the Anchorite
6 November 2021
As long as you’re alive don’t let your heart go free. Just as the farmer can’t be sure about the harvest because he doesn’t know what’ll happen before harvest-time, so we shouldn’t leave our heart...
Three Motives
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
5 November 2021
‘We please God either because of our fear of hell, because of the hope of the reward we’ll be given or because it’s good to do so’ (Abba Dorotheos).
If we examine our actions, our thoughts and the re...
On Church Attendance
Saint John Chrysostom
5 November 2021
In many of his homilies, Saint John Chrysostom emphasized the great importance of attending church on Sundays, and what a great sin it is to avoid doing so.
He said that the Jews had to give a tithe ...