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Gently
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
19 November 2019
Offer the words of your prayer gently. Don’t let your mind wander all over the place. This is a narrow and rugged path for a mind that’s used to traveling freely all over the world, but it’s the pat... 
‘Fool! This Night your Soul is Required of You; and the Things you have Prepared, whose will they Be?’
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
19 November 2019
The Lord’s parable once again reveals the state of a soul that has abandoned itself to acquisitiveness. The year has brought an exceptional harvest, too large to be stored in the rich man’s existing b...
He attributes it entirely to us
Saint Maximos the Confessor
18 November 2019
The divine word advises us to offer gifts to God, in order to show us His infinite goodness, as if He hadn’t given us anything beforehand and was receiving our offerings as gifts and attributing it ...
When the ‘Dark Night’ for the Church of Albania Began
Georgios Gotzias
18 November 2019
During the years of the harsh dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, Albania became the first officially atheist state in the world, a fact of which all the government functionaries were inordinately proud.
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You try to please Him
Elder Tadej Vitovničk
17 November 2019
The fear of God exists when you love Him with all your heart and struggle never to affront or distress Him, not only through your actions but also through your thoughts. You try to please him with e...
To pin down our mind
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
16 November 2019
Our invisible enemy, Satan, rejoices greatly over our vainglory and encourages every vainly ambitious thought we might have. He keeps us busy with all kinds of trivia and pointless actions for no ot...
Set aside in advance
Saint John Chrysostom
15 November 2019
The narrow path welcomes those who sorrow, who sigh, who bear nothing material with them except that which can be carried along this path: charity, philanthropy, kindness and understanding. If you b...
Inevitable warfare
Saint Theophan the Recluse
14 November 2019
War against the passions is unavoidable, because they never willingly give up the rights they’ve gained over our soul and body, even though these rights are illegitimate....
