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There’s no getting round it
Saint Theophan the Recluse
27 December 2020
Malice cuts us off from God. The inevitable consequence of this severance is that we’re ruined beyond all repair.
Saint Theophan the Recluse... 
Free health care
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
26 December 2020
Monasticism is a free health care center. It’s God’s clinic, where people come to get well. God calls people with a holy invitation and, through His love, brings them into this health center.
E...
Recordings from the Christmas Vigil at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi
26 December 2020
As the ‘capital of feasts’, Christmas is honoured on the Holy Mountain with a vigil, during the course of which the monks sing hymns and troparia of exceptional poetic and musical beauty. At the Div...
Prayers support
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis
25 December 2020
Pray all the time and have your hope in God. You’ll be helped by the grace of Our Lady, Saint David and Saint John the Russian. We pray for all the world, and these prayers matter.
Saint Iakovo...
The Incarnation of God as the Opposite to Today’s Sinfulness
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery
25 December 2020
Beloved Fathers and brothers, today we celebrate the greatest event of all time and all ages: the birth of Christ, the ‘capital of all feasts’, according Saint John Chrysostom. God enters our life, in...
It’s not easy
Abba Pimen
24 December 2020
If you want to uproot the passions, it’ll hurt and you’ll bleed.
Abba Pimin...
The golden link
Saint John of Kronstadt
23 December 2020
Prayer is the golden link. It joins Christians, who are wayfaring strangers on earth, to God, Who is the source of life, as well as to the spiritual world of which they’re members.
Saint John K...
Parisian School, Athenian School and American Orthodox Theological Diaspora
Vladimir Cvetkovic
23 December 2020
The aim of the following paper is to explore how theology that emerged in Orthodox diaspora over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries shaped the attitude of Orthodox theology towards the West. I ...
Ungrateful People are never Satisfied, they Complain about Everything
Saint Paisios the Athonite
23 December 2020
(Edited by Stelios Koukos)
When you see people who are very worried, troubled and sad, even though they want for nothing, you should know that they want for God.
If people have everything- material ...
The Scandal of Sickness
Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos
22 December 2020
When we listen to requests from Christians and the reasons why they pray, we see that often the dominant request is for health. Thousands of pieces of paper arrive at the Holy Preparation Table in all...
