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Love Never Fails
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
15 December 2019
It can be readily understood that, when we get to know a person and our hearts combine, we are enthused at this and overjoyed. It’s the practical implementation of our reason for being, which consists... 
Good investments
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
14 December 2019
You give what God's given you.
If God wants, He will take it all away from you in a couple of minutes.
What God's given to you, in His providence, you pass it on. It's not yours; God gave it to yo...
How Saint Ieronymos Disarmed a Potential Murderer
14 December 2019
The Elder (Saint Ieronymos Simonopetritis) related a story of something that happened to him at that time (about 1928, when he was still Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras):
When I was in ...
Abundant life
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery
13 December 2019
‘I came that they might have life and have it abundantly’. Saint Gregory Palamas interprets 'abundant life' as the life of sanctity, our adoption by God through Grace.
Those who keep God's commandmen...
Why did Christianity Triumph? (2)
Theodoros Ziakas
13 December 2019
2. The theory of force.
It would seem that the theory of force is more or less confined to Greece. Its supporters invoke the persecutions of the early Byzantine emperors against the pagan priests a...
Gently, without pressure
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
12 December 2019
There’s no need for any special concentration in order to say the Jesus Prayer.
It doesn’t require any effort if you have love of God. Wherever you are, on a stool, a chair, in a car, anywhere, o...
With your whole heart
Saint John of Kronstadt
11 December 2019
When you pray for yourself or for somebody else, for spiritual benefit, such as, for example, to be freed from some form of torment or from your sins or bad habits, do so with your whole heart.
And...
The Unity which Saves (Eph. 4, 1-7)
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
11 December 2019
In his Epistle to the Hebrews, Saint Paul says that the word of God is sharper than any double-edged sword (4, 12). Today we don’t use double-edged swords so much. Most often we come across them in mu...
It won’t fit
Saint Paisios the Athonite
10 December 2019
Don’t expect spiritual understanding from people who don’t believe in God. Pray that God will forgive them and enlighten them. Don’t even bother to try to persuade people who are full of egotism and...
