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Hypocrisy: the Outer Shell of Death
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
13 March 2020
How beautifully our peoples in the Balkans decorate eggs. As beautiful as possible, so as to decorate Easter, to increase the joy of Easter. To make visitors happier. Sometimes these painted eggs real... 
Not quickly or easily
Saint Makarios the Egyptian
12 March 2020
Nobody can reach spiritual heights all at once or easily. There are years of effort and struggle, trials and all sorts of temptations before the passions cease to trouble you. In this way, if you’ve...
‘With your spear, destroy the record of my sins..’
12 March 2020
'With your spear, destroy the record of my sins and heal the pain of my heart, Lord, which has been wounded by the arrows of the wickedness of the evil demons.'...
The Two Paths to Deification
Dr. Georgios Koios
12 March 2020
For Christians there are two paths which lead to union with God, deification.
One is monasticism. This is the difficult path. That of virginity, a pure life, perfect submission to His will. A life of...
By His word
Saint Theophan the Recluse
11 March 2020
If we don’t want it and don’t pursue it, grace won’t begin to act in us. God doesn’t want to intrude on the freedom He’s given us. Otherwise everyone would become a saint from one moment to the next...
‘As You are merciful, Christ, I beg you..’
11 March 2020
As You are merciful, Christ, I beg you,through true fasting and repentance give life to me whose soul is slain by the fruit of our transgression. Grant that I may ever walk in the straight and pleas...
I feel the punishment inside myself
Saint John of Kronstadt
10 March 2020
Sloth, stubbornness or any other passion is followed by commensurate punishment. When my internal disposition is out of sorts with God, with His sanctity, I feel the punishment within me, in my hear...
The Doxastiko at Lauds on the 1st Sunday in Lent
Theodore Rokas
10 March 2020
When we commemorate the saints for the first Sunday in Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy (when we read the Synaxari), we see: on that day, the first Sunday of the Fast, we commemorate the memory of the re...
‘The pure and undefiled fast has now come upon us..’
10 March 2020
'The pure and undefiled fast has now come upon us and brings us to the celebration of the martyr's miracles. Through the fast our souls are cleansed from filth and defilement and through t...
‘Progressives’
Saint John of Kronstadt
9 March 2020
Some ‘progressive’ people see the Church as their enemy. But is there any person who has greater love and wants our happiness more than the Church does, more than God Himself does? The Church suffer...
