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The Passion of Hypocrisy
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
9 December 2019
‘Hypocrite, doesn’t each one of you loose his ox on the Sabbath?’
On a number of occasions, the religious leaders of Israel condemned Jesus for breaking the Sabbath commandment by performing miracles... 
It can’t be done without Christ
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
9 December 2019
Without Christ, it’s impossible to correct ourselves, impossible to free ourselves from the bonds of the passions. We can’t become good of our own accord. Love for Christ is the only effective cure ...
The skeleton key
Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher
8 December 2019
Prayer is a spiritual weapon by means of which we solve all our problems. Prayer is the skeleton key for all the locks in the world, all the difficulties of our life. Through their prayers, people w...
Consider yourself lower
Saint Makarios the Egyptian
7 December 2019
Think of yourself as inferior to and worse than everyone else. Without seeking honor, praise or glory from other people....
Why did Christianity Triumph? (1)
Theodoros Ziakas
7 December 2019
The question ‘Why did Christianity triumph?’ is the same as ‘Why did the Greeks become Christians?’ Identifying the two questions in this way is not an arbitrary choice. Had the Greeks not become Chri...
It becomes passionless
Elder Tadej Vitovničk
6 December 2019
There’s no way we can achieve salvation other than by a transformation of the mind, changing it into something it hadn’t been until then. Our intellect is sanctified through a unique act of God’s Gr...
Elder Anthimos, who Saw beyond Time and Space
Dr. Haralambos Bousias, Great Hymnographer of the Church of the Alexandrians
6 December 2019
There was a young boy in Thessaloniki who was ill with kidney failure. He had to have hemodialysis all the time and led a life of pain and misery.
His parents were devout people who were heart-broken...
Your doctors
Saint John of Kronstadt
5 December 2019
Don’t get upset when people laugh at you; don’t be spiteful to those who hate you and slander you. Love them as if they’re your physicians, sent by God to teach you humility....
Letter from Prison by the Romanian New Confessor Valeriu Gafencu (†18 February 1952, aged 31)
5 December 2019
29 January 1946
Life is different from what people imagine it to be. And people themselves are different from what they imagine themselves to be. The truth really is different from what the human min...
