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Living Images (Titus 3, 8-15)
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
12 October 2020
Today the Church celebrates the memory of the holy Fathers of the 7th Holy and Ecumenical Synod, which was called in Nicaea, Bithynia, in the year 787, and was presided over by Saint Tarasios, the Pat... 
The Word of God (Luke 8, 5-15)
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
12 October 2020
‘The seed is the Word of God’.
The Lord often spoke in similes and parables. One of the most important of the parables is that of the sower. A farmer sowed his seed in a field and it fell on four dif...
It’s concealed inside us
Saint John of Kronstadt
11 October 2020
When we have a good thought, it means that within us there’s a good and supreme initial cause, which is leading our soul towards sanctity. It clearly appears from this that every good thing is someh...
The Seed of the Word of God and the Ground
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.
11 October 2020
The parable of the sower is a wake-up call for self-criticism and self-knowledge.
People often wonder and are surprised at the apparent failure of Christianity in the world, which can be seen to a gr...
It’s genuine
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery
10 October 2020
It’s a great thing if you can escape self-interest, escape self-love, escape the pursuit of self-interest, because it’s precisely then that your sacrifice become genuine, pure and then when Jesus Ch...
Holy Communion: the Medicine of Immortality and Antidote to Death
9 October 2020
‘You see the deifying Blood: have fear.
It is a coal that burns up the unworthy.
God’s Body both deifies and nourishes me:
it deifies the spirit and nourishes the mind strangely
If we intend to t...
He allows you to fall
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
9 October 2020
Be careful not to judge others because if you do, God allows grace to abandon you. The Lord permits you fall, in order to humble you, in order for you to see your own errors....
Clearly and deeply
Saint Paisios the Athonite
8 October 2020
If we could emerge from ourselves (from the love we have for our self), we’d emerge from the attraction of the earth and then we’d see everything in reality, with divine vision, purely and profoundl...
Your own from your Own
Archimandrite Nikon Koutsidis
7 October 2020
One time when Jesus was going to Jerusalem, He wanted to stop at a Samaritan village. He sent messengers to prepare for His arrival, but the Samaritans were unwilling to accept Him, because He was on ...
Limitations of science
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
7 October 2020
Is science able to tell us how the great prophet Isaiah, 700 years before the birth of Christ, foretold all the most salient events of His life? Can it explain the gift of foresight which the saints...
