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Inconceivably brief
Elder Tadej Vitovničk
6 January 2020
Life on earth is short, unbelievably short. But much has been given us in this small period of our lifetime, in order to help us to turn to God from the depths of our heart. It is He who can transfo... 
Practice makes perfect
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
5 January 2020
You have to practice if you’re to recognize immediately through the movement of your heart what’s approaching you- good or ill. It should be the same as recognizing something salty or unsalted, swee...
Translation of the Relics of Saint Efraim the New
4 January 2020
Saint Efraim, whose secular name was Konstantinos Morfis, was born in Trikala, on 14 September 1384 in an idyllic place near the River Lithaios. He lost his father at a young age and he and his seven ...
A painful feeling
Saint Maximos the Confessor
4 January 2020
The wrath of God is a painful feeling for those who are being educated by Him. It hurts when we’re visited by unwelcome pain, through which God often brings a mind puffed up with its own virtue and ...
Why are there unhappy people?
Saint Gregory V, Patriarch of Constantinople
3 January 2020
If each of us did whatever good we were capable of, there’d be no unhappy people in the world....
Thirst and Light
Archbishop of Canada Sotirios
3 January 2020
2020 NEW YEAR’S ENCYCLICAL
“The fields thirst for water and the mountains for snow.
The slave, she thirsts for freedom for so many years” (popular song).
Our poor soul thirsts for the light of th...
On the new year
Metropolitan Dionysios of Servia and Kozani †
3 January 2020
My beloved brothers and sisters,
Of all the wishes exchanged at the dawn of the New Year, the most appropriate for us Christians is the Church’s supplication: ‘May we spend the rest of our life in pe...
‘And he did not know her…’ (Matth. 1, 25)
Fr. Gennadios Manolis, Theologian
3 January 2020
In the passage 1, 25 in the Gospel according to Saint Matthew… ‘but he knew her not until she had given birth to a son’ many Protestant and other heretical interpreters consider the Greek εως ου to be...
Fight with decisiveness
Saint Theophan the Recluse
2 January 2020
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Love of pleasure opens the door of our soul to the enemy. So if you strive with constant persistence, it’ll be very difficult for any passion to dominate you....
To the Horepiscopi
Saint Basil the Great
1 January 2020
(The epistle was probably written in about 372 and was addressed to the horepsicopi, that is the local bishops who each had pastoral responsibility for a small part of the Metropolis of Caesarea, on w...
