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East and West
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
5 June 2020
The West is in the throes of turmoil while the East sits in resignation and submission to fate.
The West is continually feasting on the Tree of Knowledge and increasingly feels a hunger for knowledge... 
Deliverance from Thoughts (Miracles of Saint Joseph the Hesychast)
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
5 June 2020
Many other people received miraculous help from Elder Joseph. Father Prokopios, a disciple of harsh Papa-Nikiphoros, once was strongly tempted to abandon his elder. So Papa-Ephraim (who was also a di...
It’s hard to absorb
Elder Aimilianos Simonopetritis †
4 June 2020
Knowing the wickedness of people, that is the evil that other people do, be it great or small, alters our reason. It saps our strength, because it’s incongruous as regards God....
The ‘Fool’ and the Clever Ones
Metropolitan Meletios of Nikopolis †
4 June 2020
It often happens that the internal beauty of the life of repentance and the staunch battle against sin and the passions are not immediately obvious. One such instance was the case of the nun Isidora, ...
There are plenty of them
Saint John Chrysostom
3 June 2020
There are lots of people who are pleased when they see things that are wrong in the Church. They’re like the soldiers who, together with the Jews, nailed Christ to the Cross, crucified Him and then ...
Monastic Conversations with Father Zacharias (II)
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
3 June 2020
Read the first part here
Question: How is unity acquired in a community?
Answer: We must have all the brethren in our heart, no one should be absent, even those that may wrong us. Unfortunately we d...
He enters
Elder Christodoulos Katounakiotis
2 June 2020
The Jesus Prayer’s a good habit. Christ enters us without our realizing....
Young People in Greece
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
2 June 2020
Young people in Greece today have a number of weaknesses. They don’t like hard work, they’re indifferent towards matters of real importance, they reject concepts out of hand and they’re easily led a...
Now is the Judgement of this World
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
1 June 2020
Now is the Judgement of this World
In the last chapters of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, the Lord Himself warns us in the most intense and frightening way about the catastrophes which will precede...
