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He tolerates transgressors
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
2 January 2019
When people are deluded and neglect their duty, God doesn’t change His mind as regards the mercy He’s granted them. He doesn’t discard them as so much ash, but intervenes in an instructive manner in... 
Christ in 2019
Archbishop of Canada Sotirios
2 January 2019
2019 NEW YEAR’S ENCYCLICAL
The proponents of “God is dead” have not stopped. They fiercely persist.
An archbishop once said it. What did he say exactly? That “we live in a post-Christian e...
Why Christianity mustn’t change (2)
Saint Theophan the Recluse
2 January 2019
If the saving power of the teaching depended upon on our knowledge and our agreement with it, then it would make sense for people to come up with the idea of rebuilding Christianity according to hum...
May our Prayer be a Weapon of Resistance in the New Year
Metropolitan of Gortyn and Megalopolis, Ieremias †
1 January 2019
A new year is upon us, my dear friends, the year 2019. May Christ and Our Lady bless it, and may it bring us joy and happiness. But, as we’ve had occasion to mention before, these two, real joy and ha...
It’s strengthened
Saint Isaac the Syrian
1 January 2019
Bodily effort and study of the divine Scriptures ensure purity of the mind. The world, meanwhile, is strengthened by hope and the fear of God. Hope and fear are supported within us by avoiding world...
In essence it isn’t
Elder Aimilianos Simonopetritis †
31 December 2018
Unexpected things keep cropping up for us, because we have a will and hunger. These unexpected things are in conflict with our will and wishes, which is why they seem to be unexpected, though, in fa...
Time and the Church – 1
George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
31 December 2018
Christ’s advent brought the kingdom of God into the world. And the realm where the kingdom of God is made manifest is the Church. This retains eternity within history and provides history with the p...
The sun will die
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
30 December 2018
Soon the sun will be extinguished for us. Wrapped in the dark veil of death, we’ll be hidden away from it. But, while we live, why shouldn’t the sun see us as children who are like their heavenly Fa...
Why Christianity mustn’t change
Saint Theophan the Recluse
30 December 2018
Why shouldn’t Christianity change with the times?
Saint Theophan wrote this on the Sunday after the Nativity, 29 December 1863 and his words are as apposite today as they were then.
The times have c...
It sweetens the way they look
Saint Paisios the Athonite
29 December 2018
The inner purity of the beautiful soul of the real person also enhances their external appearance, and that divine tenderness of God’s love even sweetens their countenance. Apart from making people ...
