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The Twelve Apostles: Timid Men who Won the World Saint John Chrysostom 30 June 2023 An excerpt from a homily by St. John Chrysostom (Hom. 4, 3.4: PG 61, 34-36) It became clear through unlearned men that the cross was persuasive; in fact, it persuaded the whole world. Their dis...

That’s how it starts Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 30 June 2023 Evil begins with wicked thoughts. When you’re bitter and discontented, even if only in your thoughts, you spoil the spiritual atmosphere. You prevent the Holy Spirit from acting and you allow the ...

He punishes with love Saint - Saint Seraphim of Sarov 29 June 2023 God shows his love for humankind not only when we do good, but also when we affront him and anger him with our sins. He’s so forbearing and patient as regards our sins. And when he punishes, he do...

We have to transfer it Saint Sophrony of Essex 28 June 2023 If we’re to change our life, it needs ascetic effort; we have to transpose our spirit to God and away from common and spiteful things. Saint Sophrony in Essex...

They support the truth Saint John Chrysostom 27 June 2023 Delusion always defeats itself and, while not wanting to, supports the truth in all things Mark this: it needed to be shown that Christ died, was buried and then rose, so, all of this was firmly e...

International Masterclass of Byzantine Chant – 16th edition (10-14 July 2023, Iași) 26 June 2023 International Masterclass of Byzantine Chant 16th edition (10-14 July 2023, Iași) Commemorative Year of Hymnographers and Chanters in the Romanian Patriarchate We are pleased to announce that th...

‘I must feel her pain’ Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 26 June 2023 An acquaintance of Saint Païsios once asked him to pray for a girl who’d become involved with the occult. The saint said: ‘I have to feel her pain’. The man didn’t understand and thought the saint mea...

What can we do? Saint John the Valaam 26 June 2023 You don’t want to sin, yet you sin badly. What can we do? We’re human and clothed in the flesh. Even the wicked spirits bother us. Don’t tremble and lose heart when you happen to fall away from so...

Gospel for the 3rd Sunday of Matthew Archimandrite Dorotheos Tzevelakos 25 June 2023 ‘So if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light’. People are erratic. They can ascend to union with God, ‘a little lower than the angels’; and they can also descend into total deprav...

Foreigners Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 23 June 2023 On 14 June 2023, a fishing boat smuggling migrants capsized in international waters in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Pylos, Greece. The boat, which left Tobruk, Libya, on 10 June, was carrying betwe...

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