Search

A burning furnace Saint Paisios the Athonite 4 May 2020 When the heart becomes a furnace of love for God, then it can burn off vanity when it comes close to it and then there's inner peace when you pass through the furnaces of the trials of life....

Elder Vasilios of Iveron on Pascha 2020 Elder Vasilios Gontikakis, former Abbot of the Monastery of Iviron 4 May 2020 "This year, the Resurrection tells us many things. If it is true what we believe, and if we are living that which we chant, that "we celebrate the death of death, the deposition of Hades, and the begi...

Saint Maximos the Confessor Appeared to Elder Iosif and Explained a Difficult Passage 4 May 2020 When he (Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos) was encouraging us once to study Patristic writings, he mentioned that there was benefit not only in their teaching and exhortations, but also from their prayers. As...

At their disposal Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher 3 May 2020 When people put themselves at the service of others with the aim of helping them and bringing them relief, then not only Christ but all the heavenly powers are at their disposal...

Monastic Conversations with Father Zacharias Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 3 May 2020 Question: Why have they included marriage in the Sacraments of the Church, and not monasticism? Answer: Fr Sophrony said to me once: ‘Imagine that they do not accept monasticism as a sacrament of the...

Living and dead Saint Arsenie Boca 2 May 2020 The body lives while it cohabits with the soul, but the soul lives when God inhabits it. So there are people who have living souls within them and others whose souls are dead....

The liberation of Cyprus Saint Paisios the Athonite 1 May 2020 ‘Cyprus will be liberated when the Cypriotes repent. Make spiritual bases and get rid of those of the Turks, the British and the Americans’. So he saw the Cyprus problem as a spiritual issue, not a po...

There’s a big gap Archbishop Theofylaktos of Ochrid 30 April 2020 Our minds should be in heaven; we should be hastening to get to our real home, where we’re destined to live. The place where we belong is in the heavens. This is where real Christians differ from the ...

Anthropometric, Hemodynamic, Metabolic, and Renal Responses during 5 Days of Food and Water Deprivation Monk Eleemon Vatopaidinos 29 April 2020 Original Article Ioannis A. Papagiannopoulos, Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Vassilis I. Sideris, Alexandra Hospita...

Absent for good reason 29 April 2020 Lord, I heard Your celebrant today praying for our brothers and sisters ‘who are absent for good reason’. And they stuck in my mind. I want to find them, to discover them and then send up fervent sup...

Search Results for: ""