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Miracles and Spiritual Experiences: the Power of God or Products of the Brain?
Manolis Karakostas
8 February 2019
Over the course of the centuries there have been many who’ve sought some kind of sign, a miracle, either to convince them to believe in God or to strengthen their existing faith. This is certainly sti... 
Expect anything
Elder Aimilianos Simonopetritis †
8 February 2019
To avoid becoming upset, being worried, being anxious and over-reflective, expect just anything, put up with anything that comes along. Always say: ‘Welcome, illness’, ‘welcome failure’, ‘welcome su...
It’s more important
Abbess Gavriïlia
7 February 2019
Our relations are more difficult when the ‘I’ stands above the ‘You’....
Sharp thorns
Saint John of Kronstadt
6 February 2019
Our sins are like snakes that eat away at our heart and innards. They don’t allow us to find solace. They’re sharp thorns that pierce the soul continuously. Sins are spiritual darkness....
The Miracles of Maxim the Greek
6 February 2019
When Saint Maxim fell asleep in the Lord, he was buried at the north-eastern corner of the church of the Holy Spirit, which ‘had been erected by Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich IV in commemoration of the conqu...
From dangerous paths
Saint Isaac the Syrian
5 February 2019
Until we receive the grace of the Comforter, we have to study the sacred scriptures, so that the recollection of good is imprinted within us and that, through continuous reading, the motion of the s...
The Human Condition
Saint Justin Popovich
5 February 2019
We humans find ourselves on the road between paradise and hell, between God and the devil. All our thoughts and reflections, and every one of our feelings, bring the soul a little closer to paradise o...
It passes imperceptibly
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
4 February 2019
We need to think constantly about the fact that this life, this mortal life in which all of us have different plans, different concerns and different dreams, one day will pass away and depart. We’re...
What Have You Done With The Talents?
Metropolitan Georgios (Pavlidis) of Nikaia, Athens († 1990)
4 February 2019
1. What are the talents?
‘Talents’ are the various qualities, gifts and endowments which we have received from God. All kinds of things. Different in quality and in quantity. One person receives a l...
