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It’s obliged
Elder Gavriil Tsafos †
12 September 2021
When people are humbled, even if against their wishes, then God’s grace necessarily comes upon them.
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They’ll see
Saint Thalassios the Libyan
11 September 2021
Christ is the savior of our soul and body. Those who follow in his footsteps (1 Peter, 2, 21) are liberated from evil. Those who love Jesus are set free from wickedness. And those who follow him w...
Only against evil
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
10 September 2021
Those who are striving fight against the passions, the demons and negative thoughts. Naturally, it’s not permissible to oppose their neighbor or other people; they war only against wickedness. In ...
The Holy Forebears Joachim and Anna
Lambros Skontzos, Theologian
9 September 2021
Joachim and Anna, the forefather and foremother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, occupy an important place of honor in the hagiology of the Church. At almost every service, there’s a separate reference to th...
The culmination
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
9 September 2021
The paradise of the kingdom of heaven is the culmination of the perfection of freedom. In this life, the faithful have a foretaste of the grace of this peace-bearing freedom and ease, which has be...
The Birth of the Mother of God: the Beginning of our Salvation
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
8 September 2021
Our Church is celebrating the feast of the Birth of the Mother of God, who bore the Son and Word of God, who is the beginning of the salvation of the human race: ‘rejoice, Virgin all-holy, the beginni...
A rolling stone
Saint Theodoros of Edessa
8 September 2021
Those who are overcome by desires and pleasures will quickly fall into the snares of sin. And once sin has happened, it’s a fire in dry grass, a stone rolling downhill, a canyon formed by widened ...
Homily by Elder Ephraim οn the Birth of Our Most Holy Lady
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery
8 September 2021
My beloved brethren and Fathers, today is a reason for spiritual joy and exaltation, because today we celebrate the birth of the ever-Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and the most fragrant blossom tha...
It eats away at us
Elder Christodoulos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousi
7 September 2021
If there were no pain, if there were no manifestation of sickness, every ailment would result in death, and we would be blissfully ignorant, in the world of our imagined healthy state. This is why...
‘Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt’
Metropolitan Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou) of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki
6 September 2021
February 1988. In Karyes it was quite cold. It’s quite a long way above sea-level and it has high humidity, which makes things worse. That day, though, the weather was dry. There was even a light bre...
