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By the same standard
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
11 March 2019
God will behave towards us in the same way as we behave to our brothers and sisters.
We’ll be measured by the same standard we use to measure others.
» Saint Nicholas Velimirovich... 
On Humility and the Humble Outlook – 3
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
11 March 2019
With a variety of definitions, our Fathers lead us to humility, but the meaning is almost the same: the comprehensive labour of love that supports all the other virtues.
We shall now note some of the...
It warms up and bears fruit
Saint John of Kronstadt
10 March 2019
Sometimes, whether in church or at home, we pray in a state of spiritual or bodily enervation. Our soul’s weak, cold and barren. But as soon as we make the effort to force our heart really to pray t...
Sermon on the Apostolic Reading for the Sunday of forgiveness (Romans 13:11-14:4)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
10 March 2019
In the days that idolatry prevailed, there were annual public festivals in the beginning of March. These festivals were full of revelry, with wild dances and rich foods. Such idolatrous feasts seem...
Catechetical Homily At the Opening of Holy and Great Lent (2019)
Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
9 March 2019
+ BARTHOLOMEW
By God’s mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome
and Ecumenical Patriarch
To the Plenitude of the Church
May the Grace and Peace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with you
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A childish and unforgivable game
Saint John of Kronstadt
9 March 2019
Our life’s like a children’s game. With the difference that this game isn’t innocent, but sinful. We adults have a mature brain, we know the purpose of our life and we shouldn’t neglect this aim by ...
Bright and beautiful
Elder Cleopa Ilie
8 March 2019
Take care of your soul. Look after it and adorn it. Cleanse it from the filth of sin. Cast out from it the ugliness of evil and, with the loveliness of virtue, make it bright and beautiful....
On Humility and the Humble Outlook – 2
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
8 March 2019
Βlessed and favoured people who are humble are meek, calm, serene, attached to virtue, opposed to evil, untroubled by any circumstance or threat. They live in the bosom of the faith, like infants in...
The Question of Evil (1)
Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae
8 March 2019
The question of evil has been addressed hardly at all in the Orthodox Church. In comparison with other Christian dogmas, the answer is still expressed in a form that, of course, reveals the truth, but...
