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Like the robber Elder Filotheos Zervakos 14 January 2020 Through repentance we experience a second baptism and are cleansed of the sins we’ve committed since the first one. When we repent, confess our transgressions, decide not to repeat them, to hate the...
Papa-Fotis, the Fool for Christ: in his Vestments in a House of Ill Repute! 14 January 2020 One evening, Papa-Fotis visited one of the houses in town where he sometimes stayed. Before he went to sleep, he told the man of the house: ‘First thing in the morning, you and me have got work to do...
Theological and Scientific Theories of Knowledge George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 14 January 2020 Orthodox Christian theology has always distinguished between two kinds of knowledge: the secular and the divine. Secular knowledge functions on the level of created matter and is unable to approach th...
When we don’t get what we want Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 13 January 2020 When God doesn’t give us something we keep asking for, He has His reasons. God also has His ‘secrets’. Let’s not insist on getting what we want, but let’s leave it to God’s will....
It’s all blown away Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 12 January 2020 Pride’s a wide-open window, through which all the virtues and good works get blown away. Nothing makes us so empty towards other people and so worthless towards God as pride does....
Parents, particularly mothers… Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 11 January 2020 Parents, particularly mothers, often rebuke their children over misbehavior and chide them wrongly. This hurts them. Even if you don’t chastise them externally, but do so internally and feel aggriev...
Become like Him Saint Theophan the Recluse 10 January 2020 Those who put on Christ take from Him the power to cleanse themselves and to become like Him in purity....
Greatest torment Saint Justin Popovich 9 January 2020 There’s no greater torment than thought itself. There’s no hell greater than thought which is cut off from the Creator and God of all thought, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Divine Word. Human thought w...
Spiritual responsibility Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 8 January 2020 It’s the family that has the greatest responsibility for our spiritual state. If children are to be free of their various external problems, it’s not enough to advise, to enforce, to reason or to th...
Know then thyself Saint Cyril of Alexandria 7 January 2020 Knowledge is awareness of God. If you really want to know God, get to know yourself first....
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