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They don’t break the shell
Saint Paisios the Athonite
24 July 2019
Those people who are content with the material world and aren’t concerned for the salvation of their soul are like mindless, unhatched birds which are happy in the egg and make no effort to break th... 
Elder Nektarios Marmarinos
24 July 2019
On the occasion of the demise of the late Elder Nektarios Marmarinos, Pemptousia is publishing an extract from the book by Fr. Dimitrios Kavvadias ‘Elders and Women’s Monasticism’, in which, among muc...
Seemingly small
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
23 July 2019
The heart’s an apparently small organ, but there’s room for God to dwell inside. And if God does reside there, then the heart’s filled to overflowing and there’s room for nothing else. Even if the w...
Byzanfest 2019 21st Jul – 4th Aug
22 July 2019
By Chris Vlahonasios
It’s been a pretty chilly winter so far. Heavy rain, strong gusts and long, cold nights. Despite cranking up the heater and doubling up on quilts, the only logical solution to so...
They’re full of jealousy
Saint John Chrysostom
22 July 2019
Hypocrites want to be considered saints and have everyone reverence them for their piety. You see their outward demeanour and think that they serve God in all things, but their hearts are full of je...
Evangelical Monasticism – Part 3
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
22 July 2019
The immediate fruit of God’s love is the love of the image of God, that of people and all God’s creatures. Through years of ascetic effort, monastics acquire a ‘merciful heart’, which loves as God d...
It’s not easily uprooted
Saint Paisios the Athonite
21 July 2019
You can’t expect to uproot the futility of the world from within you as long as you’re content to live within its vanity. When we become estranged to the world, then our intellect is also detached f...
Sermon on the Apostolic Reading for the 5th Sunday of Matthew (Romans 10: 1-10)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
21 July 2019
In our reading from the Letter to the Romans, St. Paul lays before us two basic truths, which are of particular interest for us today. The first, is that we should desire and seek the salvation of our...
The most effective purifier
20 July 2019
Through tears of repentance, all the impurities of sin that have piled up in the heart are expelled....
Labour in vain
Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher
19 July 2019
It’s a waste of effort to serve the devil while invoking God‘s mercy....
