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Sunday of All Saints
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
13 June 2020
‘We went through the fire and water; but Thou broughtest us out into a place of refreshment.’
Pentecost completes the cycle of the great feasts of the Dispensation of the Lord. The Holy Spirit came t...
When we’re moved to pray
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
13 June 2020
When a person's intellect is moved to pray, divine Grace comes in a fraction of a second. That person is then filled with Grace and sees everything with other eyes....
Remain a sheep
Saint Arsenie Boca
12 June 2020
Don't hold a grievance against anybody, even if they're wicked, because otherwise your prayer won't be heard by God. Defeat evil with good! Remain a sheep, and with the power of Christ you'll overcome...
The Priest of the Massacre at Distomo Sends a Message to us Today
12 June 2020
At a time of deep divisions in societies in many parts of the world, we would do well to recall the attitude of an elderly Greek priest in the wake of the dreadful massacre at Distomo in June 1944. Th...
Like satellites
Saint Paisios the Athonite
11 June 2020
Shallow people with secular education are full of themselves and are proud. They're like the satellites up in the air and give the impression that they're stars, whereas, in reality, if you pay care...
The Most Holy Spirit
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
11 June 2020
‘He said this concerning the Spirit’
On the last day of the feast of the Tabernacles, Christ revealed that He Himself is the source of life. Because people would be leaving to go back to their homes,...
The easiest place
Saint John of Kronstadt
10 June 2020
The purer a heart is, the larger and more open it is, and the more easily it finds space to accommodate more people. The more sinful it is, the more it contracts, shuts down, and so it can find room f...
On the Holy Spirit
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
10 June 2020
Today is the joyful celebration of Holy Pentecost! In the Acts of the Apostles, we hear in detail how the Holy Spirit came down upon the Apostles and those first faithful who were devoted to the Lord...
Carry on
Elder Christodoulos Katounakiotis
9 June 2020
Don’t worry if your mind strays sometimes during the Jesus Prayer. Just say it, because God hears and the demons are put to flight....
A Story about Judging Others
Elder Panaretos Filotheitis
9 June 2020
The late Papa-Nikodimos, a spiritual father from the Skete of Kavsokalyvia told me the following story, which is recorded in Athonite Patristic manuscripts.
There was a devout Christian who went to h...





