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Spiritual Paternity
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th.
24 June 2020
1. Introduction
These days, when we talk about a spiritual father, we usually mean a priest who’s a confessor. But in Church tradition, the sense of spiritual paternity is much broader. Only God is t... 
While there’s yet time
Saint Gregory the Theologian
23 June 2020
While there’s time, let’s visit Christ, look after Him, feed Him, clothe Him, invite Him in so that we can offer Him hospitality, honor Him. Let’s offer our loving kindness to Christ Himself, Our Lo...
They don’t apply
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
22 June 2020
The spiritual world can’t be investigated in the way that we research the natural world. Those methods are totally inappropriate for any attempt to delve into the spiritual world....
The icon of a new saint. Saint Sophrony
Sister Gabriela, Holy Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex
22 June 2020
On the 27th of November 2019, Father Sophrony, founder of the Community of St John the Baptist in Essex, England, monk, spiritual father, theologian, and iconographer, was numbered among the saints wi...
Hieromartyr Methodios Bishop of Patara (June 20)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
22 June 2020
On June 20th, the Church honors the memory of St. Methodios, Bishop of Patara in Lycia, also known as the birthplace of St. Nicholas of Myra. St. Methodios rose to prominence before St. Nicholas, dur...
Sunday of All Saints (part 2)
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
21 June 2020
Read the first part here
Today, one week after Pentecost, again we celebrate a feast, commemorating all the Saints that were well pleasing to the Lord in this life and partook of His imperishable lif...
Sinner that I am
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
21 June 2020
All the passions, all the sins, all the lapses, start with egotism. This is a great evil. It doesn’t leave you alone. It tyrannizes you day and night. Everybody suffers from this wickedness, and I m...
Not just anything
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
20 June 2020
God asks only one thing: that you honor Him and observe His commandments, recognizing Him as your Maker. He doesn’t want to share His glory and have you worship just anything. He doesn’t want you to...
It rages inside us
Saint John of Kronstadt
19 June 2020
All the passions are fire in the soul, a huge fire that rages within us. We have to extinguish them with the water of love, which is so powerful it can put out any internal fire of wickedness and th...
It’s entrapped
Elder Tadej Vitovničk
18 June 2020
The person we give our heart to may hurt us or abandon us. The evil spirits are forever suggesting wicked thoughts that undermine our loving disposition and torment us. Divine love is limitless and ...
