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Do you really want to see the world? Fr. Andreas Agathokleous 4 July 2023 It’s not easy to look at the world. You have to step back a bit, as you would with a painting. Not too far, though, because then you lose the relationship, you don’t hear the messages, the words of it...
The inconstancy of our inner state Saint Theophan the Recluse 4 July 2023 You complain about the volatility of your inner state- sometimes it’s good, at others it’s bad. It can’t be otherwise. ‘I’ve undergone unpleasant spiritual states in a variety of forms and continue t...
How hard they worked Saint Paisios the Athonite 4 July 2023 We merely admire the Holy Athletes of the Church without understanding how greatly they labored, because we haven’t even tried to understand their efforts so that we can love them and, out of self...
The Centurion’s Servant Sotiris Stylianou 3 July 2023 The Gospel Reading for the 4th Sunday of Matthew (Matthew 8, 5-13) is concerned with the  miraculous healing of the centurion’s servant. While the Lord was in the town of Capernaum, he was approached...
The unique work of the holy apostles Lambros Skontzos, Theologian 3 July 2023 On June 30, with particular honor, the Church celebrates the feast of the choir of Christ’s Twelve Apostles, because their work and contribution to the task of the salvation of the world were critical...
A small Pascha Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou † 3 July 2023 At every Sunday Eucharist we celebrate a small Pascha, that is our passover from death to life, from the land of the dead to the land of the living, from enslavement to the devil to the freedom of...
4th Sunday of Matthew 2 July 2023 4th Sunday of Matthew In the Gospel reading for the 4th Sunday of Matthew (5, 14-19), Christ calls his disciples ‘the light of the world’. That Christians have always accepted that they should set an...
They’ll make their appearance Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk 2 July 2023 We have to have love, humility, compassion, prayer and the other virtues in our hearts. When these are present in someone’s heart, then they’ll certainly manifest themselves outwardly, just as hea...
Very great virtue Saint Isaac the Syrian 1 July 2023 Forgiving the faults of people who’ve harmed you is a great virtue. As is patiently bearing injustice and being merciful towards those who’ve wronged you. Saint Isaac the Syrian...
‘We shall be saved through his life’ Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 30 June 2023 ‘For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life’ (Rom. 5, 10) In our spiritual ...
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