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A chat with Papa-Theoliptos. Love has a face Ilias Liamis 13 October 2023 ‘Father, I don’t love’. ‘Well done’. ‘Well done that I don’t love?’ ‘No, no. I mean something else’. ‘What would that be?’. ‘You’ll understand as we go on. Just tell me what you mean when you say...
Saint Nektarij invited her in her sleep Stelios Koukos 12 October 2023 Nina D. had Starets Anatolij as her confessor. Quite some time after his demise, she moved to the Briansk region, where the last great starets of Optina was already living in exile. It happened that a...
The wretched and the more wretched Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 11 October 2023 ‘Whoever falls is pitiable. But more wretched is someone who entices another into falling because that person then bears the burden of both, as well as the burden of pleasure tasted by the other’ (Sai...
The Peace of God is a Great Treasure Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol 10 October 2023 When we have the peace of God within us and the soul is convinced that God is indeed our Father, who governs creation, and that we are children of this Almighty God, who sustains creation, we’re in no...
Self-Justification Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 9 October 2023 ‘Justifying ourselves, following our own opinion and satisfying our own will are the progeny of ungodly pride’ (Abba Dorotheos). When we’re accused of something, our first reaction  is to defend ours...
Death is vanquished through the mortification of the passions (3rd Sunday of Luke) Pavlos Mouktaroudis 8 October 2023 From the moment when our first ancestors ‘inclined their ears’, paid attention, to the proposition of the devil that they set aside God’s commandment and eat the fruit which wasn’t blessed for their c...
Idolatry Saint Justin Popovich 7 October 2023 ‘And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, to know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. My chil...
Bearing within Us the Dying of the Lord Jesus Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou 6 October 2023 Today’s Epistle reading preaches with assurance the paradoxical and antinomical truth that in the life of the disciples of Christ, sorrow and joy, death and life depend on each other and alternate, as...
Understanding of the Divine Liturgy is necessary Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios † 5 October 2023 The greatest and most blessed event in the history of mankind was the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to earth for His salvific work. Many of us may envy the people who lived at that time in Galilee a...
No-one has found prayer without attention and vigilance Saint Joseph the Hesychast 5 October 2023 So make haste. Say the prayer all the time. Don’t let your mouth stop at all. In this way you’ll become accustomed to it internally and then it’ll be taken up by the mind. Don’t be put off by negativ...
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