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With great care
Abbess Theosemni, the Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete
1 November 2021
We should pay great attention to the prayers before Holy Communion. And when we’re going up to receive the sacrament, we should pray and say: ‘God forgive me and have mercy upon me’. We should app...
Inside out and upside down
Saint Thalassios the Libyan
31 October 2021
Don’t trust your negativity in judging other people, because this negativity is piled high with wickedness and so produces wicked thoughts. Keep a watch on your negativity and stay away from wic...
That’s what matters
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
30 October 2021
Within the Church we become one with every unhappy, suffering and sinful person. Nobody should want to be saved alone, without the others also being saved. It’s wrong to pray for yourself, for you...
In the Divine Liturgy the believer is united with Christ
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
29 October 2021
The establishment of the Great Mystery of the Divine Eucharist is the fruit of the complete and perfect love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards His Apostles (who would continue His work), and all those ...
You’d never guess
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
29 October 2021
False humility and sanctimonious speech aren’t always signs of humility. People can be humble and you’d never guess. What indicates a humble person? According to the Fathers, their first attribut...
“Molon Lave” and “Oxi”
Archbishop of Canada Sotirios
28 October 2021
Upon hearing the Greek axioms “Molon Lave” (“Come and take them”) and “Oxi” (“No”), every proud Greek is awestruck. He is filled with pride. He admires. He praises his predecessors. He kneels and show...
We have to have it
Saint Paisios the Athonite
28 October 2021
This is why we have to have love and affection with great discretion, so that we can bring up our spiritual children with a double dose of health. When they’re little, we don’t want them to be har...
Optician
Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher
27 October 2021
Satan’s an optician. He makes us wear his own kind of glasses, so we see the failings of others magnified and our own errors minimized.
Dimitrios Panagopoulos...
Saint Dimitrios The Myrrh-Yielder – 2
James W. Lillie
27 October 2021
Saint Demetrius, byzantine mosaic from his church in Thessaloniki, 8th Century
Another point of interest is that the church of Saint Dimitrios, for 60 years (1430-1490) remained as part of the local...
Humility and its…Frills
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
26 October 2021
‘Humility is an anonymous grace of the soul, which can be named only by those who know it from experience. It’s inexpressible riches, it’s an appellation of God, a gift of God’ (Saint John the Sinaite...