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I’ve gone and caught God!
Vasilios Grillas, Theologian
6 March 2020
Children first for communion!
Just look at that. The first to take communion are the decrepit who’ve got so many illnesses and then the rest!
We should take communion from a one-time only spoon. The... 
We don’t know what we’re doing
Elder Cleopa Ilie
5 March 2020
Our spiritual intellect is like the rudder of a ship. A ship without a rudder drifts off course. Our intellect is closely connected to the heart, so if it’s in turmoil, it affects the whole of our i...
‘Do not turn your face from your servant..’
5 March 2020
Do not turn your face from your servant, for I am afflicted. Hear me now. Attend to my soul and deliver it....
You or them
Saint - Saint Seraphim of Sarov
4 March 2020
The door of repentance is open to everybody and we don’t know who’ll go through it first- you who condemn others or they who are condemned by you....
True Fasting
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
4 March 2020
‘Indeed, I tell you, they have their reward’.
Whatever we gain and achieve in virtue and our moral perfection is an inviolable treasure and, moreover, one that’s personal, inalienable. It’s not ‘abou...
‘I alone have labored in sin..’
3 March 2020
I alone have labored in sin; I alone have opened the gate of the passions. Forgiving Word, turn me back and, of Your loving-kindness, save me. (Matins, Ode 1)....
It doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist
Saint Silouan the Athonite
3 March 2020
Each of us will have an opinion about God that’s commensurate with the measure of the Grace of the Holy Spirit we have. Because, how is it possible to think about and judge things we haven’t seen an...
The Three Keys
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
3 March 2020
In Cheesefare Sunday’s Gospel, the Church takes three pieces of gold from the Sermon on the Mount and gives them to us to make keys to open the door of Great Lent.
a. Forgiveness of those who have wr...
Fasting: Same Rules for Everyone (Desert and Big City)
3 March 2020
One of the more curious features of living in Greece is that, if you go to a football match on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, one of the messages relayed to the crowd at half-time is alw...
