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What do you have in your memory?
Saint Amfilokhios Makris
24 September 2019
You should always call Christ to mind, with love. We might be holding a photograph of someone but, because we don’t know them well, we don’t love them, it doesn’t move us. When you hold a photograph... 
Appropriation and disaster
Saint John of the Ladder
23 September 2019
Judgement is the shameful appropriation of God’s right, and condemnation spells disaster for the soul of those who commit it. Never condemn, even when you see something with your own eyes, because t...
It’s shattered
Elder Tadej Vitovničk
22 September 2019
Our thoughts, inclinations and desires open a path for us and reflect the whole of our life. If our thoughts are peaceful, full of love, kindness and purity, then we’ll be at peace, because peaceful...
Like a poisonous snake
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
21 September 2019
How pusillanimous some Christians are. Although they recognize Christ as the living and all-glorious Lord, they still allow doubt to dwell in their hearts, like a venomous snake that poisons them on...
Don’t waste a moment
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
20 September 2019
If you fall into sins through weakness, expunge them all immediately through repentance. But, in any case, through rigid vigilance, try to avoid the sins you commit through weakness....
Not with a heavy heart
Abba Dorotheos
19 September 2019
Perfection is also giving alms ungrudgingly, willingly and without disdain. Give wholeheartedly, as though you yourself were the recipient, benefiting as though you were the beneficiary. Then God’s ...
Thoroughly displeased
Elder Tadej Vitovničk
18 September 2019
When we undertake a task unwillingly, we quickly find ourselves resistant to it and repelled by it. Then our life becomes full of resistance and repulsion towards every little thing. The years go by...
‘My child, wake up and don’t waste your time on stupid things!’
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
18 September 2019
I received your short letter and I share your pain. I brought to mind the image of how things are and, aware of my own wretchedness, sighed at the possibility of being saved. ‘Alas, Saviour of the wor...
