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A great struggle
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
23 April 2021
People today typically wear hateful masks. It takes an enormous amount of effort get rid of this mask, to move on from the persona to the person.
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos...
No-one is saved alone
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
23 April 2021
The distillation of the Christian life is love. This is why, in discussions being held during the coronavirus outbreak, particularly by people who don’t take part in the life of the Church, they urge ...
The Fight against the Evil Spirit
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
22 April 2021
During this period of Holy and Great Lent, the struggle (prayer and fasting) against evil for Orthodox Christians is particularly intense. At Great Compline we pray: "Lord ... redeem us from all turmo...
We have to ask
Saint Silouan the Athonite
22 April 2021
In our struggle, we have to be bold. The Lord loves a bold and circumspect soul. If we don’t have boldness and circumspection, we have to ask God that we may submit to our spiritual guides, becaus...
‘Lord, before I’m utterly lost, save me’ (2)
Saint Justin Popovich
22 April 2021
(Homily on the 5th Sunday in Great Lent)
Prayer! What is prayer? It’s the great virtue that raises you and raises me. Have you perhaps got up to pray, have you cried aloud to the Lord to save you...
Is the question ‘Why?’ blessed or cursed?
Metropolitan Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou) of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki
21 April 2021
It’s such a common question, so powerful in its expression, so difficult to answer. It’s such a true question, so human, so demanding but one which, by its very nature, can’t endure utterance, isn’t ...
Look after ourselves
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis
21 April 2021
Temptations exist and will always be there in our lives. We have to protect ourselves from the innumerable traps the wily devil sets for us. It’s only with humility and prayer that we can avoid th...
‘Lord, before I’m utterly lost, save me’ (1)
Saint Justin Popovich
20 April 2021
(Homily on the 5th Sunday in Great Lent)
The fifth Sunday in Lent, the Sunday of long vigils and great ascetic efforts, the week of profound lamentation and sighing, the Sunday of the greatest of a...
5th e-Synaxis from Holy Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim and the faithful of Saint Nicholas and Saint John the Apostle Students Church in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
20 April 2021
5th e-Synaxis from Holy Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim and the faithful of Saint Nicholas and Saint John the Apostle Students Church in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Thursday, April 22, 2020, 07:30-09:30 PM...
Those who love a little, give a little
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
20 April 2021
Those who love a little, give a little. Those who love more, give more. And those who love greatly, what can they give that’s worthy of their love? They give themselves.
Saint Porfyrios Kavsoka...





