Search Results for: ""

Railing against God is Tantamount to Condemning Him Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea 14 June 2021 Complaining against God isn’t merely criticism of him; it’s also condemnation People often ask why, for what reason, the Lord God sends them sorrows and very onerous trials. It’s extremely important ...
The Promise of the Father – From Ascension to Pentecost Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 14 June 2021 Ascension For forty days after the Resurrection, the Lord Jesus was ‘being seen of His disciples’. He was gladdening the hearts of His disciples with His Presence and initiating them into the mysteri...
What will you do? Saint John Chrysostom 14 June 2021 Really, if God asks you to defend yourself over the indifference and irreverence you display at liturgical assemblies, what will you say? At the time when he’s talking to you, instead of praying y...
We’re all so clever Saint Paisios the Athonite 13 June 2021 For God to answer our request and for him to give us what we ask for, we must first have humility, but we don’t. All of us, young and old, are very full of ourselves and won’t accept advice or cha...
It would be enough Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 12 June 2021 If even only one person had become obedient to the commandments of the incarnate Word of God, our savior and renewer, and had observed them, that by itself would be enough to prove the truth that ...
What he wants most Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 11 June 2021 The important thing is for us to be with Christ. For our soul to wake up and love Christ, to become holy. To surrender to burning divine love. Then he’ll love us, too. Then our joy will never be t...
Elder Ephraim’s condition stable, no deterioration reported 10 June 2021 For the sixth successive day, Elder Efraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi is on intubation in the ICU of the Evangelismos Hospital in Athens. According to the medical team t...
Missing the truth Saint Mark the Ascetic 10 June 2021 Some people who don’t keep the commandments think they believe correctly. Others keep the commandments and expect the Kingdom as a reward owed to them by God. Both of them are far from the truth. ...
It’s our task Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis 10 June 2021 The main task for us people is prayer. We were made to praise God. That’s the task to which we’re best suited. It’s the only thing that explains our spiritual hypostasis. It’s the only thing that ...
What do we celebrate on the day of the Ascension? 9 June 2021 When do we celebrate the feast of the Ascension this year? The feast of the Ascension of our Lord, is an important day in the Orthodox Christian calendar, as it marks the completion of Jesus’ missi...
...184185186187188...731
Content