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How Church cures our deformation
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
8 June 2020
The Church cures our deformation through its teaching, through the Gospel message, through asceticism, through its holy sacraments and through the pastoral care of its bishops....
Moribund
Saint Basil the Great
8 June 2020
If you deprive your soul of prayer, you’ll end up like a fish out of water: as good as dead....
What is Prayer of the Intellect and of the Heart?
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
8 June 2020
Remembrance of God demonstrates communion with Him and is therefore like prayer. Striving to invoke the holy Name of Christ continuously, through the prayer ‘Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy upon me’, is...
The Most Holy Spirit
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
8 June 2020
‘And He said this about the Spirit’
On the last day of the Feast of the Tabernacles, Christ revealed that He Himself is the source of life. Because people were about to leave to go back home, Christ’...
The Orthodox Church as a Continuous Pentecost
Saint Justin Popovich
7 June 2020
Who is Jesus Christ, the God and human person? Who is God in Him and who is human? How can we recognize God and how do we know the human person? What did God give us in Jesus Christ? All of this is re...
His bequest
Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis
7 June 2020
You know very well that our Elder (Saint Iosif) was an extreme hesychast who practiced the Jesus Prayer. But what he taught us first and foremost was neither hesychasm nor the Prayer, but obedience ...
Neither more nor less
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
6 June 2020
Christians are earthen vessels into which divine power and light are poured. Whether this vessel sits upon a golden royal throne or lives in the dark hovel of a beggar, their value is the same in th...
Pentecost and Creation
Fr. Stephen Freeman
6 June 2020
Earth is a wondrous place – no matter where we go – how deep, how far, how high, how hot, how inhospitable – in this place we find life. Everywhere we look on our nearest neighbor – Mars – we find – n...
Sanctity. How?
Elder Efsevios Yannakakis
5 June 2020
Through constant effort, good will and the Grace of God, every soul progresses and prospers in virtue and sanctity....
Sin’s in fashion now
Saint Paisios the Athonite
5 June 2020
Elder, did you tell anybody that war’s coming? That’s what we’ve heard. Is it true?
I haven’t said anything, but people say what they want. Even if I knew something, who would I tell it to?
It’s a b...





