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Sin as Sickness
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
15 January 2019
It’s natural to have feelings of guilt if we look at sin as a transgression against ‘the law of God’ rather than as a sickness we’ve inherited as children of the first Adam. Because if, over time, sin... 
They’re wrong
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
14 January 2019
We must have joy. Doctors and psychiatrists say that joy’s a mental phenomenon. No, they’re wrong. Joy’s a spiritual phenomenon. People go to the cinema to laugh and then, when they come out, they r...
Christ’s Behaviour (Matth. 4, 12-17)
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
14 January 2019
‘When he heard that John had been delivered up, he withdrew to Galilee’.
The way in which Christ behaved towards people wasn’t always the same. He expressed Himself in a variety of ways. Besides, Chr...
It wouldn’t bear fruit
Saint Makarios the Egyptian
13 January 2019
You should know that, hidden away in sorrows and sufferings, in patience and faith are God’s promises, as also are His glory and the acquisition of the heavenly blessings. Because even the wheat tha...
Sermon on the Apostolic reading for the Sunday after Theophany (Ephesians 4:7-13)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
13 January 2019
In today’s passage from the Epistle to the Ephesians, the Apostle Paul revisits the great topic of the unity of the faithful and their spiritual perfection.
First of all, the Apostle Paul wants to ...
Be upright
Abba Sisois
12 January 2019
If you fall, pick yourself up… until death finds you either in your fall or in your recovery. Isn’t it written: ‘Where I find you, there will I judge you’? Just pray to God that your last moment wil...
Not even one
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
11 January 2019
And even if things are slow to happen, as they may well be, or even if it seems that God’s gone silent and is inactive, so long as you retain your trust in Him then He’ll reveal Himself in marvellou...
The Central Problem of the Lack of Change in the World is the Excess of Good Wishes and the Absence of Good Deeds
Protopresbyter Antonios Christou
11 January 2019
Dear readers, by God’s grace, here we are at the start of a new year, only a few days after the last one ended. We’ve been here before and have shared thoughts and resolutions for a better year in all...
They’ll bear fruit
Abba Pimen
10 January 2019
When people avoid too much talking, quarrels, upsets and turmoil, the Holy Spirit casts His shade over their soul and then, however barren they are, they bear spiritual fruit....
