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Where’s your love?
Saint Isaac the Syrian
23 July 2020
If you're not holy in your heart, become pure in body, that is don't commit bodily sins. If you're not meek, at least make peace with yourself. Don't be sad if you err, but if you persist in your erro... 
It hastens to steal
Saint John of the Ladder
22 July 2020
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The ant waits for the corn to be gathered and vainglory waits for spiritual riches to accrue. The ant hastens to steal; vainglory rejoices at being lavish. The spirit of de...
What are the pleasures? Which are blameworthy and which are innocent?
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
22 July 2020
‘Pleasures’ are those things which ‘give pleasure’ ηδονή) and sweeten our lives. They are dual like our human nature. As we possess a body and a soul and each one of us have his senses and his body, i...
Fortunate and unfortunate
Saint Silouan the Athonite
21 July 2020
How fortunate we Orthodox Christians are! What a God we have! Those who don’t know Him really deserve our sympathy. They don’t see the eternal light and, after death, wander in eternal darkness. We ...
Prophet Elijah the Tishbite
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
21 July 2020
The prophet Elijah occupies a special place among the ranks of the prophets of the Old Testament, and his name is often mentioned in the New, both by the Lord or by various holy persons The word ‘prop...
Abba Dorotheos: Instruction 11
Abba Dorotheos
21 July 2020
115. It happened that a great Elder was with his disciples in a place where there were all kinds of cypresses, large and small. He said to one of his disciples: ‘Pull up that little cypress plant’. It...
They don’t reject people
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
20 July 2020
A young man who wants to become a monk does so because he’s received the fire, the flame of Christ. And if this young man comes to monasticism, he doesn’t reject other people. Monastics who leave th...
What is goodness and evil and when do they operate?
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
20 July 2020
Goodness is the Lord Himself, whatever originates from Him and all that surrounds Him. Goodness was also found in the human nature before the fall and afterwards in the reform of sanctification. Goodn...
True sign
Saint Maximos the Confessor
19 July 2020
A sign of true knowledge is the ability to bear sufferings and not blame other people for the disasters that befall us. Sorrows come to us to instruct, to expunge previous sins, to correct our negli...
