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Crowned as martyrs Saint - Saint Seraphim of Sarov 1 June 2020 If the Lord allows people to be tormented by sicknesses then He’ll give the strength to bear them. Those who suffer illness with patience and gratitude to God are crowned as martyrs and strivers. Ju...
Looking Down Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 1 June 2020 There are feasts in out tradition that don’t last long. For example, the Lord’s Ascension, for many people, is Christ’s return to heaven, leaving us alone to deal with what He bequeathed us: the Gospe...
Killing the passions Elder Moisis the Athonite † 1 June 2020 Christians who are striving aren’t feather-brained dupes, nor are they naïve, simplistic, superficial, shallow, gloomy, weird or abstracted. If they are, they’re not real Christians. Striving Christi...
Don’t get upset Abba Isaiah 31 May 2020 If the need arises for you to chastise one of the brotherhood, and you’re upset and angry, don’t speak at all, otherwise you’ll become even more distressed. But when you see both him and yourself in...
Jesus Christ: the Son and Word of God (Sunday of the Holy Fathers) Metropolitan Agathangelos of Fanari 30 May 2020 The Sunday of the Holy Fathers, which our Church celebrates during the period of Pentecost, is dedicated to the memory of the Holy and God-Bearing Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Synod in Nicea, at whic...
They’re humbled Desert Fathers 30 May 2020 When people are ashamed of themselves and disgusted by their actions, through which they’ve affronted God’s love and sanctity, they’re shocked to the core, they feel that their heart’s in pain and i...
Long for God Saint Isaac the Syrian 29 May 2020 You can’t approach God without unceasing prayer. Desire God, so that He can fill you with His love....
‘This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way that you have seen him go into heaven’ Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian 29 May 2020 ‘This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven’ (Acts 1, 9-11). With the handing-back of the great feast, yesterday saw the...
Romiosyni Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios 29 May 2020 Romiosyni isn’t an intellectual ideology, nor it is merely a reference to the past. It’s an authentic and true experience, which many people still live today, since they’re in tune with aparticular at...
They set us free Saint Maximos the Confessor 28 May 2020 Humility and hardships liberate people from all sin. The former cuts off the passions of the soul and the latter the passions of the body....
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