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Ceaselessly and with persistence. Saint Dimitri of Rostov 17 March 2021 Strive and be vigilant for what is good, but without depending on your own capacities. Pray ceaselessly and assiduously to God and ask for his help. All our deeds depend not so much on us as on Go...
The loss of awareness Saint Sophrony of Essex 16 March 2021 Despair is the lack of the awareness that God wants to give us eternal life. People are living in despair. It’s they who’ve condemned themselves to death. Saint Sophrony, Essex...
It’s hindered Saint Gregory the Theologian 15 March 2021 Where there’s fear, there’s observation of the commandments. Again, where there’s observation of the commandments, there’s purification of the flesh, the nebula of which prevents the soul from see...
On the diet of the fathers Elder Gavriil, Former Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Dionysiou on the Holy Mountain (†1983) 15 March 2021 When the grace of God moved my heart to come to this blessed place of peace and prayer, it was February in the year of the Lord 1910. It was my desire to go to the Skete of Kavsokalyvia, where Saint A...
Don’t let it get you down Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis 14 March 2021 Be vigilant and pray that you won’t be tempted. Don’t despair if you continually fall into old sins. Many of these are powerful by their nature and are reinforced by habit. As time goes by, howeve...
Forgiveness. ‘Quarrelling’ with God; the Power of Fasting Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 13 March 2021 Forgiveness The Cross was decided in the pre-eternal Council, so in a way God had forgiven us even before we fell. He took the risk of creation about which Father Sophrony speaks, for His purpose eve...
It gives meaning and purpose Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 13 March 2021 Our personal God gives meaning and purpose to our life. Human nature can communicate in energy with the distinct and interpenetrating persons of the Holy Trinity. Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos...
Not the words so much Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher 12 March 2021 Nobody’s been perfected by prayer. God sees the intention we bring to prayer, rather than the words we say while we’re praying or the number of times we cross ourselves. Dimitrios Panagopoulos...
On Meat-Fare Sunday (3) Saint Gregory Palamas 11 March 2021 10. According to the Gospel for Meat-Fare Sunday all our affairs will be displayed for judgement. It says: ‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him’. At his first coming, t...
A passing friend Saint John of Kronstadt 11 March 2021 If our body is continuously in decline  and appears to be moving closer to death, let’s disregard it as being a wayfaring stranger and let’s direct all our care to our immortal soul. The body’s a ...
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