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Rejection of Despair Saint Peter the Damascan 9 June 2021 We shouldn’t despair when we’re not as we should be. Of course it’s bad to sin. But why do you disrespect God and, in your ignorance, think him weak? Is he who made this great world for you unable to...
Why we’re separated Saint Symeon the New Theologian 9 June 2021 Let’s not be flexible as regards our conscience. Let’s pass strict judgment on ourselves and then we’ll see that we ourselves are the cause of our estrangement from God. Let’s repent, weep over ou...
The blind and the blinded Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 8 June 2021 ‘In his private thoughts, the man blind from birth said to himself: Was I then born without eyes for the sin of my parents? Was I then born as a sign for the unbelief of the pagans? I am unable to ask...
The wonderful Fr. Daniil and his amazing appearance with healing gifts 8 June 2021 On another occasion, there was a monk from one of the neighboring ‘Wallachian’ kellia who had taken ill and had found some relief from eating little, slightly bitter cucumbers. Winter came and he be...
Saint John Chrysostom, Homily 36 on the Acts of the Apostles Saint John Chrysostom 7 June 2021 (Epistle for the Sunday of the Blind Man) Acts,  16, 25-40 ‘And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake,...
Everything’s subjected to him Saint Isaac the Syrian 7 June 2021 People who submit to God, subject everything to him, because he engenders peace in their heart. If we don’t humble ourselves, God will humble us. Real humility is the product of knowledge of tempt...
Put yourself in their place Elder Amvrosios Lazaris 6 June 2021 When you react to anybody at all, before you judge and answer, put yourself in their place. At that precise moment, see why they’re cursing you, why they’re angry with you, even why they’re saying...
Sunday of the man born blind Metropolitan Anthony Bloom † 6 June 2021 In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. At the end of today's reading, words stand that we pass by very often. The blind man says to Christ, "And who is the Son of God?" and Christ ans...
They kill it Saint Makarios the Egyptian 5 June 2021 Try to look back calmly, make a critique and reassess the whole of your life, in an effort to see it in the way God does. Then carefully root out every wickedness which such an investigation will ...
‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?’ Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian 5 June 2021 Christ has risen! He has risen indeed! The sixth Sunday after Easter and we hear in church the Gospel reading concerning the Lord’s healing of the man who had been blind since birth. The healing of t...
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