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When we approach God
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
23 August 2020
We often come to God to lean on Him because nothing around us brings us peace. And then we feel calm.... 
‘I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me’
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
23 August 2020
In the Gospel reading for the 11th Sunday of Matthew, known as the parable of the thousand talents, we see on the one hand the mercy and loving-kindness of God and on the other the callousness of peop...
11th Sunday of Matthew (Handing Back of the Dormition of the Mother of God)
Metropolitan Panteleimon of Veria, Naousa and Kampania
23 August 2020
‘The grave and death did not hold the Mother of God, our unshakeable hope, unsleeping in prayers and protection’ .
Nine days have passed since the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God and the ...
In a few and in many
Saint John of the Ladder
22 August 2020
People who boast of natural gifts, such as a sharp mind cleverness, the ability to learn easily, to read, to speak well and so on will never acquire supernatural gifts. Because if you're faithless in ...
In the hermitage of humility: the figure of an elder [4]
22 August 2020
Among other things, I asked the Elder what I could do to love Christ? I thought that he’d tell me all sorts of things involving unceasing prayer, many prostrations, fasting and so on, but he simply ...
‘When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we speak kindly’ (1 Cor. 4, 12-13)
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
21 August 2020
Writing to the Corinthians, Saint Paul refers to the mission of Christians as imitators of the apostles, as imitators of their spiritual fathers when the faith is persecuted: ‘When reviled, we bless; ...
Beginning and end
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
21 August 2020
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All the waters of the earth pour into the oceans and unite together. All the works of the Fathers unite in the Gospel. They all teach us to keep Christ's commandments exact...
On the care of the soul
Saint John Chrysostom
20 August 2020
Just as the winter is a good time to turn over the ground, so sorrows are good for the care of the soul. Sorrow brings two benefits: it makes us more estimable and more careful....
