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Don’t be too sure Saint Sophrony of Essex 3 August 2021 Given the fallen state in which we find ourselves, we’re unable to judge our brothers and sisters properly. Don’t be too sure that they’re in error. Don’t judge them. Elder Sophrony, Essex...
Translation of the Relics of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 2 August 2021 When the Jews slew St. Stephen by stoning, they left his body for the dogs to consume. However, God’s providence intended otherwise. The martyr’s body lay in an open place at the foothill of the cit...
The Spirit of Lust Saint Cassian the Roman 2 August 2021 The second struggle we have to engage in is against the spirit of lust and bodily desire, which begins to bother people at an early age. This is a great and difficult struggle, that’s fought on two fr...
Difficult to loose Saint Theodoros of Edessa 2 August 2021 Let’s bind ourselves tightly in order to carry out the Lord’s commandments, so that we’re not bound tightly with the chains of wicked impulses and soul-destroying pleasures. These are difficult to...
That’s the way things are Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 1 August 2021 We can’t deny God, because, in order to deny something we have to be strong enough to abolish it. In our lack of belief, we can boast that God really doesn’t exist, that we’ve destroyed him. But e...
Sin and Sickness: An Orthodox View Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia 31 July 2021 In one of the most beautiful modern examples of our ecclesiastical education, Sister Magdalen of the Holy Monastery of Saint John the Baptist at, Tolleshunt Knights, Essex, says that we can’t speak dr...
It disappears Saint Isaiah the Anchorite 31 July 2021 If your mind is freed of every hope in this world, this is a sign that sin has died within you. If it remains free of worldly things, then the distance that exists between you and God disappears. ...
Time Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae 30 July 2021 For God, time is the waiting period between when he ‘knocks at the door’ and we open it wide for him (‘If someone hears my voice and opens the door, I will enter and dine with them and they with me’ (...
There’s cooperation Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol 30 July 2021 Once we enter properly into the spiritual life, we feel from the first moment the light of hope in God beginning to dawn in us. But we’re definitely on a journey and that journey demands struggle,...
Self-absorption, the Cancer of the Soul Archimandrite Iakovos Kanakis 29 July 2021 Self-absorption is a cancer in the soul and has been so  from the time of the first human beings until today. It can be defined simply as love for yourself. ‘Is that bad?’, it might be asked. The prob...
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