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It never forgets
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
18 June 2023
If a person’s soul tastes the grace of God even once, it never forgets. It’s a great thing for people to have permanent inner peace, and this shows the presence of Christ in their heart. We’ve for... 
Words multiply
Saint Paisios the Athonite
17 June 2023
Nowadays, unfortunately, there’s a proliferation of words and a paucity of experiences, because people have been influenced by the secular spirit which seeks all the comforts but avoids bodily eff...
God and Science
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
16 June 2023
‘When we examine modern science, as this has been created by scientists such as Lamarque and Darwin, we see the contrast and, I would say, the absolute dissonance which exists between science and reli...
They live to love
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
16 June 2023
The saints don’t save. The saints only intercede. All our saints go to Christ. From individuals, saints become persons and are written into the ledgers of the heavenly kingdom. This call is to eve...
Don’t seek
Saint Dimitri of Rostov
15 June 2023
Under no circumstances should you praise yourself or seek the praise of others. And don’t envy those who are praised by other people. The really prudent people are those who are praised by God and...
Don’t allow them
Elder Cleopa Ilie
14 June 2023
Never let your mind be taken prisoner by the passions; and don’t allow the passions to revolt and assume authority over the soul.
Elder Cleopa Ilie...
‘Show me a person’
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
13 June 2023
When the pagan Avtolykos once asked Saint Theofilos of Antioch to show him the god he believed in, the latter replied: ‘Show me a person and I’ll show you my God’. The saint’s answer reminds us that i...
Then work
Elder Amvrosios Lazaris
13 June 2023
Seek the Lord, not people. We’re wayfarers here. Our homeland’s elsewhere. God gives us problems in order to strengthen our faith and bring us closer to him. God wants prayers, nothing else. Know ...
Encomium on All Saints – Part II
Saint John Chrysostom
13 June 2023
But let’s not merely listen to what’s been said, that is that there were hot coals below the wounded bodies, but let’s think how we feel when we suddenly come down with a fever. We think that life’s...
From Babel to Pentecost
Kleopatra Hatzilia, Cultural Historian
12 June 2023
Many scholars and historians consider ethnophyletism to be a phenomenon dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, a product of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the political theory of the s...
