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They know the art
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
21 October 2021
Humble people don’t provide handles for temptation to latch on to. But if they are caught out and thrown to the ground, they know the art of getting back up and saying; ‘Forgive me, God; forgive m... 
You reference your pain
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
20 October 2021
In the name of prayer, the Fathers defined the notion of introversion and particularly that of ‘private’ conversation with God. This is where people throw themselves on God’s mercy and goodness an...
What he praises
Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis
19 October 2021
Saint John Chrysostom praises Job not for his former life, when he was merciful, compassionate, hospitable and a man of prayer. No. He praises Job’s patience in the great trial which God allowed t...
Sunday of the Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Synod (787)
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
18 October 2021
‘The holy and ecumenical seventh synod took place in Nicaea in Bithynia (787). This was the second synod in Nicaea, after the Fathers of the 1st Synod convened there in 325, during the reign of Emper...
The Word of God (Luke 8, 5-15)
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
18 October 2021
‘The Seed is the Word of God’
Very often the Lord would speak in similes and parables. One of his most important parables is that of the sower, the subject of today’s Gospel reading. A farmer was sow...
The lethal breath
Saint John of Kronstadt
18 October 2021
Those who’ve been poisoned by the virus of pride are contemptuous towards everything, even that which is divine and sacred. Pride destroys and pollutes every good thought, word or deed, every work...
A deeper state
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
17 October 2021
When Christ, the Apostles and the Fathers speak about peace, they don’t mean abstention from bodily or spiritual warfare, but an altogether more profound spiritual state. It begins with the pacifi...
We collect the brushwood
Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher
16 October 2021
Concerning the harm the devil can cause us, Saint Gregory the Theologian said: Don’t put the blame for all your sins on the hapless devil. We’re the ones who collect the brushwood and he sets fire...
The Pain that Leads to Joy
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
15 October 2021
The ‘forgive me’ which comes from a heart in pain over a mistake breaks down the hard wall of remoteness, of animosity, and unites that which was divided. This is why it’s neither easy nor painless. B...
The conscience we’ve forgotten
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
15 October 2021
‘When our conscience tells us to do something and we ignore it, and when it then tells us to do something else and we don’t do it, we steadily and relentlessly stamp upon it; we bury it and it can’t s...
