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Know your nature
Saint Basil the Great
15 November 2018
Examine your self, who you are. Get to know your nature, that is, that your body’s mortal and your soul’s immortal. Look at yourself carefully, so that you recognize the health and sickness of you... 
He weighs up our impulses
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
14 November 2018
The devil doesn’t have foresight, nor does he know what people are thinking. He draws conclusions from the impulses of our emotions and then stimulates our members and senses with corresponding, imp...
On Spiritual Knowledge
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
14 November 2018
We recently posted an article on the importance of spiritual reading here http://bit.ly/2F4xYBq.
The position of the Church has always been, however, that we need help and guidance if we’re to unders...
This is the measuring-stick
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
13 November 2018
Christian love moves in a circle. First comes love for yourself, then love for your friends and, finally, love for God. Christ took our love for our self as the standard for measuring our love for o...
It’s always your fault
Elder Aimilianos Simonopetritis †
12 November 2018
We need fear and trembling in case we look down on others, in case we hold them accountable for our own calamities, because that would be a falling away from God. Saint Isaac the Syrian stresses: ‘N...
The Self-Sacrifice of Love for our Neighbour
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
12 November 2018
Today’s Gospel reading is the well-known parable of the Good Samaritan. The immediate message of the reading is obvious- that we should aid those in distress- but the following commentary puts this te...
We need to decide
Elder Amvrosios Lazaris
11 November 2018
We can’t be with Christ and with the evil one. We have to decide. What does the Lord want? Truth, justice and faith. And what’s in our heart to be on our lips. Not the heart to say one thing and the...
It’s amazing
Elder Epifanios Theodoropoulos †
10 November 2018
Holy Communion is a sacrament of humility. I don’t mean the humiliation of the Lord’s sacrifice on the Cross, but something else. The tiny contents of a small spoon are Christ Himself, our great God...
