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Imitators of God
Saint John of Kronstadt
27 July 2020
Let those who are maligned or are suffering terribly, put up with the curses with meekness and restrain their anger, since, in doing so they become imitators of God.... 
Abba Dorotheos – Instruction 2 On Humility (part 2)
Abba Dorotheos
27 July 2020
There are two forms of humility, just as there are two kinds of pride. The first form of pride is when you destroy another person, when you revile them as if they were mere nothings and think yourself...
Heart and humility
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
26 July 2020
The heart gives life to our organism and humility gives life to the soul. Through egotism, people take the side of the wicked spirit, that is they grow in a spirit of evil rather than good....
Two extremely tragic cases
Georgios Patronos, Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Athens
25 July 2020
In the Gospel reading for the 7th Sunday of Matthew (9, 27-35) we have two events. The first is the cure of two blind men and thereafter that of the man who was both mute and possessed. Both cases are...
They’re all over the place
Saint Theophan the Recluse
25 July 2020
All day our thoughts are flying around. They fly and wander all over the place. Most are vain thoughts, since they have to do with ordinary, everyday matters and routine tasks. Sometimes others occur,...
Christ and the Social Problem
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
25 July 2020
The more that people are cleansed of the passions, the greater their capacity for real communion with God and other people.
Those who take a romantic and external view of the human person transfer wi...
There are lots of paths
Elder Filotheos Zervakos
24 July 2020
There are lots of paths for us to get from earth to heaven, but the easiest, quickest and safest is humility. That's the only one that’s safe and sure, and if you walk it you'll get from earth to heav...
On Suffering Temptations Calmly and Thankfully
Abba Dorotheos
24 July 2020
Like most of Abba Dorotheos’ work, this text is addressed to monks. Fundamentally, however, monastics of both sexes are simply people who have been called to live a particular way of life within the C...
