Search Results for: ""
Reading the Gospel
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
30 August 2021
When you read the Gospel, don’t expect pleasure, stimulation or wonderful thoughts. Seek to see the infallible, holy truth.
Don’t be content with fruitless study of the Gospel. Read it in a practical...
It won’t be forgotten
Saint John the Damascan
30 August 2021
It may be that people have acquired a small leaven of virtue and, despite wishing to, haven’t managed to make it into bread, either because of sloth, indifference or procrastination. The day then ...
The Modernization of Magic
Archimandrite Gregorios Κonstantinou
29 August 2021
Magician, witch or priest of the religion of Zoroastrianism for the people of Media: in classical antiquity this role referred to the priestly art of divination of Mazdaism (Zoroastrianism), who's pra...
He exists and he doesn’t
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
29 August 2021
God doesn’t exist logically. A saint, Symeon the New Theologian, said so. He said God doesn’t exist in any modus essendi, any mode of being, that we can grasp. He’s a ‘non-existent being’, God. He...
The Beheading of John the Baptist (Mark 6, 4-29)
Archimandrite Ioïl Yiannakopoulos
28 August 2021
The Coexistence of Wickedness and Virtue
Good and evil are comingled in such a way that they’re colored by each other, so that the wickedness of evil can show, as can the benevolence of good. In this...
The Prophetic Life of the Mother of God – the Pattern of Monastic Life
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
28 August 2021
Monasticism is an imitation of the life of the Mother of God, which was from the beginning to the end an imitation of the way of Her Son and God. In essence, the handmaiden of God Mariam had prophetic...
‘God’s Husbandry’ (1 Cor. 3:9-17)
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
28 August 2021
Expressed with great inspiration in a poetical form, today’s apostle reading is rich in meaning. The first Christians lived with the greatest fulness of fervour and grace in comparison with the later ...
The whole host
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
28 August 2021
Seek love. Ask God every day for love. Together with love come all the other benefits and virtues. Love, so that you’ll be loved by others. Give your whole heart to God, so that you’ll dwell in lo...
Why did God give the command to the forefathers?
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
27 August 2021
God did not give the command to the forefathers to abolish the freedom from their personality. As we have already said, the universe as “being caused” cannot exist by itself. Therefore, not only does ...
We should change course
Abbess Theosemni, the Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete
27 August 2021
We shouldn’t be bothered with sins, nor should we think about them. We should confess them and then change course and deal with beautiful things instead.
Abbess Theosemni, Monastery of Chrysopi...





