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Humility
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
18 May 2020
Do you want to live properly? Make sure you’re humble, because unless you are, you can’t live properly. We distance ourselves from God by abandoning humility. Love humility and you’ll never fall int... 
Special Feature: 30 years since the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi became a coenobium and Elder Efraim was enthroned
18 May 2020
In accordance with the ancient tradition of the Church, as established by Saint Pachomius in Egypt, the monastic way of life in monasteries is communal. Communal worship, communal table, labor/obedien...
They’ll not be the same
Saint Anthony the Great
17 May 2020
The time will come when people will lose their minds. And if they see somebody who hasn’t lost their mind, they’ll say ‘You’re crazy’. Because that person will be different from them....
The “Water of Life”
Varnavas, Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis
17 May 2020
In the Gospel reading for tomorrow (4, 5-42), Saint John the Evangelist transports us to a well in Samaria, one hot noontide. Christ had sent His disciples to the nearby town of Sychar to fetch suppli...
The True Worshippers of God
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
16 May 2020
‘They will worship the Father in spirit and truth’
There was conflict between the Jews and Samaritans. They weren’t related peoples. Samaria was a region totally foreign to the way of life of Israel....
We’ll be held accountable
Saint Nikodimos the Athonite
16 May 2020
If Moses was excluded from the promised land over one word, how much more will we be deprived of the kingdom of heaven because of our blunt, loud tongues? The Lord Himself says that we’ll have to an...
Deliverance from Thoughts (Miracles of Saint Joseph the Hesychast)
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
16 May 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 dis...
What’s a Christian?
Saint John of the Ladder
15 May 2020
Being a Christian is, as far as is humanly possible, to imitate Christ in words , deeds and thoughts....
You won’t get anywhere
Elder Tadej Vitovničk
14 May 2020
If you want to set someone on the right path, to teach and advise them, you must first speak to them with great love. They’ll accept your advice, because they’ll realise it’s given with love. But if...
