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The most unfair and the fairest
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
11 October 2019
Envy is the passion of the malicious soul which is consumed with jealousy when it sees other people prospering. It’s spitefully critical of anything good that others enjoy. It’s the root of all evil... 
Sorrows are spiritual contests
Saint Basil the Great
10 October 2019
For those who are properly prepared, sorrows are spiritual contests and food for the athletes of Christ.
They enable them to inherit the glory of the Father.
Saint Basil the Great...
Concerning God: that He is Incomprehensible
Metropolitan of Gortyn and Megalopolis, Ieremias †
10 October 2019
Let us continue with our study of the word of God from the book by Saint John Damaskinos Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. In the previous chapter, the saint told us that God exists. This is obv...
Golden crowns
Saint Paisios the Athonite
9 October 2019
When we’re slandered or wronged by vacuous or wicked people who are full of wickedness and distort the truth, it is good –if we can– not to want to be proved right, in front of other people, provide...
Fruitless trees
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
8 October 2019
Abba Isaac says that people who don't have a merciful cast of mind are like trees without fruit.
It doesn't matter what your ascetic endeavors are –prayers, fasts and vigils–, unless your heart's m...
