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But it’s not like that Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher 20 June 2021 In our prayers, we often ask God, Our Lady or the Saints for something and when we don’t receive it we think God’s being indifferent towards us. But that’s not the way things really are, because t...
Pentecost…Then what? Eleftherios Balakos 19 June 2021 “I shall be with you till the end of the world” (Matth. 28, 20). With these words, Christ bids farewell to His disciples at the Ascension, on the Mount of Olives. His last act is a departure and, at ...
Do everything Saint Andronik of the Monastery of Glinsk 19 June 2021 Don’t do anything by being guided by your own will, but feel the presence of God wherever you find yourself. Do everything as though you were standing before God, not before other people. Sain ...
Holy Spirit as a person of the Holy Trinity 18 June 2021 “Who together with the Father and the Son is worshipped” According to the Patristic Theology, the Ascension of Christ is inherently connected to the descent of the Holy Spirit. Evidently, the Comfo...
The greatest gifts Saint Isaac the Syrian 18 June 2021 Faith and availing ourselves of the sacrament of Holy Communion provide us with the greatest gifts and renew us. Saint Isaak the Syrian...
You don’t win the crown Elder Cleopa Ilie 17 June 2021 You’re a wayfarer, my brother. Be careful not to go astray. Don’t go off to the left or the right. Always tread the royal road. You’re a spiritual athlete. Mind yourself, in case you break the rul...
The whole secret is ardent love for Christ Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 16 June 2021 ‘Those who love a little, give little; those who love a lot, give more; and those who love a great deal, what can they give? They give themselves’. Christ and joy Christ wants to spread joy and is p...
They’ve seen the mire Saint Dimitri of Rostov 16 June 2021 Those who truly know themselves have made a start at acquiring humility, because they’ve seen the extent of their weakness and also the cesspit which is hidden within their soul. ‘Broken and contr...
We’re able Saint Sophrony of Essex 15 June 2021 We can’t acquire pure prayer except through repentance. When we repent, that is, when we cleanse ourselves of every sinful passion, we gradually become able to enter the divine light. Saint Sop...
Eternal Life Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos 14 June 2021 As we move from the feast of the Ascension to that of Pentecost, we’re essentially progressing from the feast of the glorification of human nature to that of our illumination. Between these feasts, th...
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