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God’s providence
Saint Paisios the Athonite
18 June 2019
Nothing happens without God's providence, and wherever there's God's providence it's certain that whatever happens, however bitter it may be, will bring benefit to the soul.
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Our own deformity
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
17 June 2019
However well informed you are in terms of human wisdom, this doesn't cure your deformity.
You have to rediscover the true image of God, Christ, so that assuming the form of Christ, you’ll be healed o...
Illustrated manuscripts of Holy Land – Proskynetaria
Soterios Cadas
17 June 2019
Proskynetaria is the name given to manuscripts containing descriptions of the monuments of Palestine, especially the Christian ones. They have many points of similarity with modern travel books or tou...
On the Light of the Holy Spirit
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
17 June 2019
Discourse XXXIII. On the Light of the Holy Spirit
In the third ode of the canon at Mattins on the Monday of the Holy Spirit, the hymn has Christ saying ‘I shall send you the Spirit of me and of the F...
Reservations regarding Transplants
George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
17 June 2019
The negative arguments against transplants
The negative arguments against transplants mainly invoke the sanctity of the human body and the spiritual dimension that these basic organs have in Old Te...
A caring mother
Saint Paisios the Athonite
16 June 2019
From my understanding, apart from the greater manliness of spiritual love, it’s also surrounded all the other virtues. It seems that love is the affectionate mother of all the virtues....
They lose themselves
Saint - Saint Seraphim of Sarov
15 June 2019
At around their thirty-fifth year, that is half-way through our earthly life, people have a great struggle to remain true to themselves. At that age, many of them don’t remain virtuous, but go astra...
He couldn’t do you harm
Saint John of Kronstadt
14 June 2019
If you suffer and are sad, blame your sins and the devil, but, above all, blame yourself. Because the devil couldn’t harm you if he didn’t find a flaw in you that allowed him to do so....
Saint Justin Popović, a great monastic figure
Athanasios Gieftits
14 June 2019
Saint Justin Popović, (14 June)
The holy and God-bearing Father Justin the New, from the Monastery of Ćelije (the Holy Archangels), was born on 25 March 1894, on the morning of the Annunciation, in t...
