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A sublime virtue
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
7 February 2020
Integrity is simplicity, innocence and the unsullied purity of the soul. It is a virtue of the highest value, because it is the fruit of Christian perfection. People who have integrity study God’s w... 
The Greatest Failure of Modernism
Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th.
7 February 2020
George Orwell’s dictum, expressed in his novel Animal Farm, that ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’ is both proverbial and perennially true. In this allegorical and po...
No respite
Saint Dimitri of Rostov
6 February 2020
Spiritual vigilance and your struggle against demonic evil will go on until the end of your days, and that’s because Satan’s always on the watch, never resting, like a wild lion prowling everywhere,...
God’s mercy
Saint Isaac the Syrian
5 February 2020
As the shadow follows the body, so the mercy of God follows humble reflections....
Thrash the enemy
Saint Theophan the Recluse
4 February 2020
When you turn to the Lord, don’t look at what’s happening within you. Keep your attention fixed on Him and beg for help. If a mind is paying full attention to the Lord, there’s no room for nasty tho...
The Importance of the Sacred Canons of Ecclesiastical and Canon Law in the Life of the Church
Vasilios Grillas, Theologian
4 February 2020
In Christian terminology, the word ‘canon’ is technical and has three meanings: a) it decides the authentic and genuine books of Holy Scripture (The Canon of Scripture); b) it determines the order in ...
The times are thirsting…
Elder Gavriil Tsafos †
3 February 2020
Our times, our world need monasteries. We need saintly and dedicated monks and nuns. Our times are thirsting for beauty. Thirsting for Christ....
Have there been Saints who Died by their own Hand?
3 February 2020
a) In recent times, because of the omnifarious social crisis and in the face of failures, disenchantment, insurmountable economic problems and despair, there have been many cases of suicide.
This phe...
We’d turn our eyes away
Saint John of Kronstadt
2 February 2020
God sees what each of us has in our soul, what our heart’s been attached to over the greater part of our life. If the Lord had given us the ability to read the depths of the human heart then we woul...
