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Firm faith
Saint John of Kronstadt
24 March 2019
Don’t allow the seeds of doubt or disbelief to enter your soul.
It will be bad for you, if at the time of prayer, your heart is hovering between faith and disbelief, if your faith isn’t firm.
Don’t ... 
Heard prayer
Saint Paisios the Athonite
23 March 2019
Any prayer spoken with humility and pain of the heart is always heard by God.
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Miracles of Saint Diomidis (2)
Saint Neofytos Recluse
23 March 2019
Second miracle
At some point, late at night, Saint Diomidis appeared to the iconographer and said to him: ‘Look, painter, at the man you say you don’t know and, once you’ve been convinced by the mo...
Temptations toughen us up
Elder Cleopa of Romania
22 March 2019
Temptations teach us the experience of spiritual warfare, they toughen us up in life and help us progress spiritually.
They also humble us and show us our weakness and incapacity when we’re alone, wi...
Hieromonk Neofytos Vatopaidinos (1876-3 April 1967)
Archimandrite Gabriel Dionysiates
21 March 2019
Angelos Theoharoudis, the son of Dimitrios and Anastasia, was born in 1876 in Gomati, Halkidiki. In 1892, he entered the beautiful, old Kelli of the Great Martyr Prokopios, belonging to the Holy and G...
Parents, children, sainthood
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
21 March 2019
The saintliness of the parents saves the children.
For this to happen, Divine Grace has to act upon the souls of the parents. People don’t become saints on their own.
The same Divine Grace will th...
How is Death Overcome?
Archimandrite Iakovos Kanakis
21 March 2019
We can’t accept that God is the ‘maker’ of the wrongs we see all around us. It’s not possible that God created corruption, pain, sickness and, finally, death. But then, how do they exist? There are a ...
Trust in God
Saint Paisios the Athonite
20 March 2019
Trust in God is a continuous mystical prayer which quietly draws the powers of God, where and when they’re required.
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