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After prayer
Saint John of Kronstadt
6 June 2019
Prayer will bring Christ into your heart, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit and it will strengthen and protect your soul against all evil.
But after prayer, you have to guard your heart ... 
Lessons in humility
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
5 June 2019
When the heart is humbled, it’s overshadowed by Divine Grace, which brings contrition, tears, peace and love.
When you yourself are humbled, everybody else will seem to you to be saints. But when you...
Muttering
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
4 June 2019
The slightest muttering against your neighbor affects your soul and you can’t pray.
When the Holy Spirit finds the soul like this, He dare not approach it.
» Venerable Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia...
A visit from the Lord
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
3 June 2019
Whether the sword is sent, or sickness, famine, death, or something else that’s considered appalling, they’re all sent to earth for our regeneration and correction, and so that we can concentrate our ...
Putting yourself in the place of others
Saint Paisios the Athonite
2 June 2019
Putting yourself in the place of other people is a great aid in acquiring internal kindness, because then love comes naturally, as do pain, humility, and gratitude to God through continuous hymns of...
A voluntary sorrow
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
1 June 2019
Compassion is the voluntary sorrow we feel at the disasters that have befallen others.
It’s begotten in a heart which sympathizes and suffers with the sufferings of others and it’s expressed as a l...
Badness blinds us
Varnavas, Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis
1 June 2019
Metropolitan Barnabas of Neapolis
In our lives, my beloved brothers and sisters, God has endowed us with many gifts. Health, people we love and who love us, the beauty of the world surrounding us, t...
Passions show most freely in family life
Saint John of Kronstadt
31 May 2019
Watch yourself, especially your passions in your family life, because that’s where they show themselves most freely.
Outside the house, some of these are usually covered up by other, more ‘respecta...
