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It’s not working properly Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol 6 July 2021 Repentance is the feeling we have that we really are transgressing against God’s commandment. Now this commandment is our cure, but it’s been distorted. When we feel the distortion in our relation...
Do you know the aim of the Church? Fr. Andreas Agathokleous 5 July 2021 It’s painful and unfair that the Church should appear in the eyes of people today, particularly the young, to be a religion that imposesitself on the insecurities, weaknesses and illusions of people. ...
Don’t wish for it Saint Theophan the Recluse 5 July 2021 Let’s not believe that we’ll always have inner fervor and that we’ll continuously enjoy inner sweetness. Don’t hope for that. On the contrary, always expect sudden ups and downs. So when you’re un...
Not for a reward Saint Mark the Ascetic 4 July 2021 For those of us who’ve been fortunate enough to be baptized, good deeds aren’t offered to God in order to receive a reward, but so that we can preserve the purity of holy baptism. Saint Mark th...
Even over the cliff Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou 3 July 2021 Usually when people feel they’re in a small grouping, they don’t feel comfortable. They’d rather be with a larger entity, even if they’re all rushing over a cliff. Elder Georgios Kapsanis...
The True Christian Metropolitan Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou) of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki 2 July 2021 In the Gospel readings, we often come across the Apostles invoking the authenticity of their personal witness in order to be convincing: ‘which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which...
It’s all nice and cozy Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher 2 July 2021 It’s only in sorrows, in pain, in sickness and in abandonment that we have spiritual benefit. When everything’s running smoothly, it’s all a bed of roses. People have to be convinced by the events...
Spiritual Experiences of Divine Grace Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 1 July 2021 I’ll tell you another secret now. At night I speak on the telephone to a monk on the Holy Mountain. He studies the Fathers a lot and explains many things to me. We talk about spiritual matters. Crazy,...
He answers with silence. Elder Germanos Stavrovouniotis 1 July 2021 God answers our prayers in many ways. Sometimes through events that we think are coincidences, whereas in fact they’re not that at all but acts of divine providence. At others times he’ll answer w...
What is required? Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis 30 June 2021 God welcomes those prayers which are offered in an appropriate manner, that is with an awareness of our imperfections and unworthiness. But for this awareness to exist, what is required is complet...
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