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The Freedom of the Person
Protopresbyter Efstratios Karatsoulis
11 December 2018
The issue of freedom is of great importance in the Orthodox view of humankind. According to this, people are made to be free. Freedom is the result of the fact that we’re made in the image of God and ... 
It’s a sacrifice
Starets Iosif
10 December 2018
If your prayer isn’t fervent, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t pleasing to God. Sometimes such prayer may be thought of as sacrifice, if you humble and censure yourself before God....
Human Tape-recorders
Saint Paisios the Athonite
10 December 2018
Because of so much reading, people today have ended up as tape-recorders and their cassettes are full of superfluous things. But according to Abba Isaac, teaching without action is a ‘repository of sh...
Nobody else
Abbess Theosemni, the Holy Monastery of Chrysopiyi, Hania, Crete
9 December 2018
Let’s take communion with humble thoughts. We should listen to and concentrate on the words of the Service of Holy Communion and we should say: ‘Christ, I’m such a sinner and no-one else is’....
Sermon on the Apostolic Reading for the 15th Sunday of Luke (Galatians 4: 22-27)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
9 December 2018
The Apostle Paul, with this reading from his Epistle to the Galatians, seeks to educate those who still do not realize that the Mosaic Law has a temporary and not eternal value. To illustrate this, he...
The Triune God is our Saviour
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
9 December 2018
Jesus taught in the synagogues on Saturdays. The reason behind His choice of day was that, for the Jews, Saturday was a day of rest and worship of God. Any work was completely forbidden. Even the dist...
That’s where it takes you
Saint Neofytos Recluse
8 December 2018
Through unflinching repentance, knowledge of the self leads to knowledge of God....
Not the results
Hélder Pessoa Câmara
7 December 2018
We must address the causes of what’s wrong with a candid mind, rather than dealing with the results with charity....
On Self-Restraint
Book of the Elders
7 December 2018
Some monks from the skete set out to visit Abba Anthony. So they got on a boat and there found another Elder who also wanted to go the same place. The brothers didn’t know him, though. Sitting amidshi...
