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Like a wave Abbess Gavriïlia 26 October 2021 The whole of life is like a wave. Either we’ll become like Saint Peter and walk on the waters, or we’ll sink, like the Prophet Jonah. Abbess Gavriilia...
The Fragmentation of Sin (Luke 8, 26-39) Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis 25 October 2021 The frenzy which is the result of the influence of demonic forces is described in stark language in the case of the man possessed at Gadara. This  agitation is expressed in the power of evil, which, i...
The possessed and the mentally ill Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia 25 October 2021 There are times, in religious circles, when confusion arises over which people are mentally ill and which are possessed by demonic energy. When Saint Païsios the Athonite was asked how the mentally il...
The Retrieval of the Relics of Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 25 October 2021 Apart from the conventional and social character which the retrieval of the bones of the departed at the time of exhumation has always had, it is also an act of care and enhancement, which, in the Chu...
We don’t seek it Saint John of Kronstadt 25 October 2021 We all love life. We’re anxious and want to make life happy. But this life of ours is polluted by our passions. Why? Because we don’t seek itin the right place. Saint John Kronstadtskij...
Not yet Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 24 October 2021 When you’re grafted onto the Body of Christ, that is the Church, through the sacraments, particularly Baptism, Confession and the Divine Eucharist, you acquire an ecclesiological mode of being. Th...
They’re deeply imprinted Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis 23 October 2021 In accordance with the Lord’s commandment, Christians have a duty to become holy and perfect. Perfection and holiness are first etched deeply in the soul of these Christians and from there make a ...
The Two Paths Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 22 October 2021 The path of wickedness is easy; the path of goodness is difficult. ‘As easy as it is for the upright to change and fall away, it’s just as difficult for the others, the wicked, to alter’ (Saint John ...
The bridge is burnt Elder Gavriil Tsafos † 22 October 2021 Relations with other people require a great deal of tolerance. If somebody wants to reject you and you reject them then you burn your bridges with them. Elder Gavriil Tsafos...
On Frequent Communion Saint Nikodimos the Athonite 21 October 2021 Saint Gregory the Theologian: ‘When they fittingly and worthily partake of the most holy Body of our Lord, this becomes a weapon for those under attack and a return for those who have abandoned God. I...
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