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Miracles of Saint Diomidis
Saint Neofytos Recluse
20 March 2019
When his enemies became aware of his presence, they followed him, because they wanted to find out who it was who’d come to Trifyllios, where he’d come from and where he was staying. Five hundred Hagar... 
Repentance & Turnaround
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
19 March 2019
Repentance without a complete turnaround is nothing more than a travesty before God and the soul. It doesn’t do to play with God.
He shows mercy to those who repent, but chastises harshly those who d...
Hieromonk Dometie (Trihenea) of the Holy Kelli of Saint Ypatios (8 June 1909-21 November 1985)
19 March 2019
Dumitru Trihenea was born to Dumitru and Maria in Tilişca Sibiului, Romania, on 8/6/1909. His parents were shepherds. In 1915, his parents moved, with their flocks, to the Crimea, while Dumitru remain...
Commensurate temptations
Elder Cleopa of Romania
18 March 2019
Temptations are trials that come upon people from the devil and his minions, that is, bad people. In practice, they’re commensurate with the powers and nature of each person.
God allows weightier tem...
Communication between a Married Couple, according to Saint John Chrysostom
Klairi Mavromatou-Hatzikonti
18 March 2019
Today, when the institution of marriage is in crisis all over the world, it might be useful to look at the inspired words of the Fathers of the Church as guides to life.
In an article in Pemptousia M...
‘Do not turn away your face’ (sung by Matthaios Tsamkiranis)
18 March 2019
In Great Lent, the Orthodox Church, through its long, penitential services, seeks the mystical experience and approach of the Passion and the Resurrection. With this in mind, the hymns of this perio...
Rule and law
Saint Maximos the Confessor
17 March 2019
By true divine providence, beings have within them a rule and law which allows those who appear to be ungrateful for the good things they’ve received, to be punished by their opposites, so that they’l...
Heart and mind lifted
Elder Cleopa of Romania
16 March 2019
People can pray without ceasing provided they’re always standing before God in heart and mind.
They can be working with their hands, but have their heart and minds lifted up to God.
We have to under...
The Meaning of Christian Asceticism (2)
Metropolitan Symeon of Nea Smyrni
16 March 2019
3. However, fasting and ascetic effort don’t mean merely abstinence from particular foods. They definitely include a struggle to free ourselves from our passions and an effort to acquire Christian v...
