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It wouldn’t be necessary
Saint John Chrysostom
22 December 2018
There’d be no need for words, if our life shone. There’d be no need for teachers, it we had works to show. Nobody would be an unbeliever, if we were true Christians....
The Easy Way isn’t a Friend of our Spiritual Life
Protopresbyter Antonios Christou
22 December 2018
Our modern civilization prides itself and boasts about the fact that it’s managed to improved the everyday lot of humankind. From our primitive ancestors, who strove to dominate the rest of creation i...
It enlightens the soul
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
21 December 2018
You gain two graces when your strive on the side of God. One is the comfort of the Holy Spirit, which fills the soul with joy, peace, delight and so forth. The other grace is what we call the experi...
Throwing petrol on the fire
Saint Seraphim of Vyritsa
20 December 2018
We must assuredly pray for our enemies. If we don’t, it’s like throwing petrol onto a fire, making the flames more intense… Always thank Christ and Our Lady for everything, even your sorrows....
Trials and Pain in our Life
Saint Paisios the Athonite
20 December 2018
The way to deal with disability
Elder, can a disability create an inferiority complex?
That’s just nonsense.
But this sometimes happens with the disabled.
It happens because they have the wrong ta...
It’s always useful
Saint Basil the Great
19 December 2018
The teaching of Holy Scripture is always useful, but especially so in cases when we lose loved ones....
1st Discourse on Fasting [5]
Saint Basil the Great
19 December 2018
Fasting in the Old Testament
But let’s tie our words to history, examining the antiquity of the fast. It was passed down as a paternal bequest and thus preserved, from one generation to the next, u...
You’re certain
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
18 December 2018
When you love Christ, despite all the difficulties and the feelings you have concerning them, you also have the certainty that you’ve overcome death, because you’re in the communion of the love of C...
Casting off our Sinful Nature and, by Grace, Clothing Ourselves in the Theanthropic Nature
Metropolitan Panteleimon of Veria, Naousa and Kampania
18 December 2018
‘Having cast off the old self with its practices, and clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in the awareness of Him Who created it’ (Epistle reading, Col. 3, 4-11).
On the Sund...





