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Patience
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
14 February 2019
All the trials which the love of God sends us are so that we can acquire patience and become like Him, Who is called ‘the God of patience and comfort’.... 
The Need to Knead
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
14 February 2019
‘If you don’t want to knead, you’ll spend ten days sifting flour’, that is, finding excuses for your laziness.
The folk saying’s got it right. And if that’s true for the genuinely tiring task of kne...
The unjust wealth
Saint John Chrysostom
13 February 2019
When you see somebody becoming rich through wrong-doing and then living prosperously, sigh and weep for them. Because this wealth adds to their punishment.
What they’ve saved is lost and what they’...
Our ‘Good Image’
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
13 February 2019
It’s not unusual for people to be very concerned that others should have a good image of them. This demonstrates a lack of self-awareness, humility and seriousness. In the depths of their being, the d...
Casting mud
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
12 February 2019
The Lord didn’t live among people in order to besmirch them, but to cleanse them. He never sullied anyone, but, on the contrary, cleansed all those who desired to be.
What a rebuke for many of us, wh...
Wrapped sin
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
11 February 2019
Sin never appears as it really is, naked, abstract, because if it did, it wouldn’t deceive people’s minds so easily and make them give in.
It always comes wrapped in an excuse and, with this treacher...
That we should not despair, even though we sin often
Saint Peter the Damascan
10 February 2019
Even if you are not what you should be, you still ought not to despair. It’s bad enough that you’ve sinned, without maligning God by regarding Him, in your ignorance, as powerless. He it is Who, for y...
Rely on the Grace
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
10 February 2019
If you allow the thought that you can rely on your own powers and proceed in that vein, then pride enters.
You lose what you’ve gained and you need to start again from the beginning, to humble your...
Our base nature
Saint John of Kronstadt
9 February 2019
Just as we don’t judge ourselves harshly, neither should we judge others. Irritation comes from a lack of self-awareness, from pride, from the fact that we don’t take into account the true baseness ...
