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Love, affection & discretion Saint Paisios the Athonite 19 December 2019 This is why we should have love and affection, combined with great discretion, so that we can raise our spiritual children with double health, so that they won’t be hurt when they’re young, even by ...
How often should we take Holy Communion? Fr. Andreas Agathokleous 19 December 2019 Our participation in Holy Communion is a spiritual matter concerning which the opinions expressed have fluctuated over time. From the view that we should commune only infrequently, out of respect for ...
Nobody Came! Mihalis Mihalakopoulos 18 December 2019 As all the parables are, that of the great banquet, as it’s known (the Gospel reading for the 11th Sunday of Luke) is of enduring value and, mutatis mutandis, expresses principles, weaknesses and the ...
United and bound together Saint Philotheos Kokkinos, Patriarch of Constantinople 18 December 2019 It’s God’s will that we be united and bound together by the bond of genuine, true, pure, guileless and sincere Christian divine love. It’s a disgrace, a lie, to pray to the Lord for the peace of the ...
Why did Christianity Triumph? (4) Theodoros Ziakas 18 December 2019 Gnosticism and Christianity The Late Roman era was clearly steeped in Gnosticism, then: a) the world is a prison b) all things human are mere vanity c) life is a dream and a nightmare d) the au...
Warm & cold Saint Theophan the Recluse 17 December 2019 People should be warm towards God and all things divine, but cold towards secularism and sin. » Saint Theophan the Recluse...
How Our Lady Gave Holy Communion to those who Labored Agapios Landos 17 December 2019 At the time of Saint Savvas, many virtuous monks lived in his lavra, serving the Lord. Then a rich, virtuous leader, of noble stock, also went to live there as a monk and the saint received him gladly...
Confession Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis 16 December 2019 Confession is the voluntary and sincere disclosure of the sins that have been committed – without shame or hesitation, but with self-censure and contrition – before the person appointed by the Churc...
Why did Christianity Triumph? (3) Theodoros Ziakas 16 December 2019 The Theory of Decline/Anxiety If force is excluded , there remains the notion of decline/anxiety. This theory is that, in the first three centuries A.D., the Greco-Roman world fell into a terrible ...
Children and Grace Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery 15 December 2019 Even little children are able to sense the Grace of the Holy Spirit. This is why we notice in some saints that when they were children they didn't much care for games, as their contemporaries did. R...
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