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In the Likeness of God (Luke 6, 31-36) Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia 21 October 2023 ‘Therefore become merciful, as your Father is merciful’. If we read the literature of the ancient Greek sages and, indeed, that of wise people from all over the world, we see that, in their efforts t...

‘Here’s to us; who’s like us?’ Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 19 October 2023 How often do we do something considered spiritual- prayer, church attendance, fasting, some alms-giving- and think we’ve become ‘Saint Anthony’. Because we compare ourselves… to ourselves. We ourselve...

Reply to mockery with a smile Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 18 October 2023 Their mockery comes from a malicious heart; let your smile be without any badness. Mockery sits well with ignorance; a smile is more suited to knowledge. Through their mockery they’re increasing the v...

‘I had the impression I was surrounded by flames which didn’t burn me’ 17 October 2023 (Edited by Stelios Koukos) - ‘I suggest we pray together, both of us, at exactly the same time. We’ll each pray for the other’. We agreed and promised. We even set the time for the prayer-10 p.m. He...

Don’t expect the world to get any better Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 16 October 2023 The consistency of the pattern in Christ’s life is a challenge for the rational thinking of people in the world and a reversal of everything they hold to be a constant. Why? Because, having expunged G...

Sermon on the Apostolic reading – 4th Sunday of Luke (Titus 3: 8-15) Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 15 October 2023 The Apostle Paul, after being freed from his first imprisonment in Rome, went to Crete with his valued companion, Titus. After a short period of apostolic activity, The Apostle Paul made Titus the B...

The 7th Ecumenical Synod Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios 15 October 2023 Beloved brothers and sisters, when he was speaking one time to the elders of the Church of Ephesus, Saint Paul told them that he was aware that, after he left them, savage wolves would come in among t...

Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapter 38) Saint Irenaeus of Lyons 14 October 2023 Why we were not made perfect from the beginning. (Saint Irenaeus ends the previous chapter, 37, by saying that God has arranged things in such a manner that we will be brought to perfection over time...

A chat with Papa-Theoliptos. Love has a face Ilias Liamis 13 October 2023 ‘Father, I don’t love’. ‘Well done’. ‘Well done that I don’t love?’ ‘No, no. I mean something else’. ‘What would that be?’. ‘You’ll understand as we go on. Just tell me what you mean when you say...

Saint Nektarij invited her in her sleep Stelios Koukos 12 October 2023 Nina D. had Starets Anatolij as her confessor. Quite some time after his demise, she moved to the Briansk region, where the last great starets of Optina was already living in exile. It happened that a...

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