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You’re undone Elder Haralambos Dionysiatis 29 January 2019 As regards the love of God, we say that He loves us or that we love Him, when we feel love for God within ourselves. This is nothing, tiny, compared with that feeling of love for God you have when H...
The place of the servant Saint Mark the Ascetic 28 January 2019 The mouth of a humble-minded person always speaks the truth. Those who contradict the truth are like the servant who struck the Lord....
The Theology of Touch: Symbols in the Works of Van Gogh and God’s Revelation Vasiliki Rouska 28 January 2019 ‘A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” Then he said to Thomas, “Put...
There’s no room Saint Basil the Great 27 January 2019 When the burning love of devoutness occupies your soul, you then rejoice and make your way along your path, be it easy or difficult. When divine love flourishes in a faithful soul, it leaves no room...
Like the starving Saint Justin Popovich 26 January 2019 In the first place, church attendance is a need of the soul. Just as the hungry have need of food and the thirsty require water, so, too, do Christians have need of their ‘daily bread, which is the ...
Excerpt from Discourse 37 Saint Gregory the Theologian 25 January 2019 V. But, as I was saying, to return to my argument: great multitudes followed Him because He deigned to take on our infirmities. Then what? It says that the Pharisees also came to Him, tempting Him, an...
He’s their boast Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis 25 January 2019 How blessed are those who hope in God. He is ever their helper and they fear no harm that others might do to them. They hope in the Lord and do good. They place their hope in Him and confess Him wit...
A scandal, many sins and a saint! Ioannis Panayiotopoulos, Lecturer at the Theological School, Athens University 25 January 2019 One of the most wonderful stories in the Lavsaïko describes the life of a monk who abandoned his monastery and went to the port of Alexandria to work as a dock labourer. Given the fact that it was a ...
We’re lucky Elder Tadej Vitovničk 24 January 2019 Life on earth is very short, unimaginably brief. But much has been given to us in this short period of time. It’s been given to us so that we can turn to God in the most heartfelt way. He’s the one ...
The three great giants Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 23 January 2019 The three great giants of the passions, as the Fathers call them, are love of pleasure, avarice and ambition. If these take hold of us, they beget another three, which are worthy of them: inattentiv...
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