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God doesn’t discriminate
Saint Theophan the Recluse
23 October 2018
God doesn’t discriminate.
He doesn’t take into consideration what people were – good or bad, virtuous or sinful – before they desired Grace. He simply awaits the expression of this desire from each o... 
The Saints Reveal the Truly Free Person
Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th.
23 October 2018
An important place in Biblical and Patristic thought is accorded to the battle against the fear of death and Satan and to the achievement of freedom, in Christ, from all forms of self-interest and nec...
The acts of the enemy
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
22 October 2018
The struggle is relentless and continuous, external and internal.
Sometimes, the enemy acts visibly, through people and things, and at others he attacks people invisibly, through their thoughts.
On ...
Christ is the Source and Origin for Forgiveness and Entry into Paradise
22 October 2018
Someone once went to Elder Iosif the Cave-Dweller- may we have his blessing- a man who came from his home town.
When he got there, the Elder asked him about all the old people there. You know, the wa...
Love and pressure
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
21 October 2018
The supposedly ‘pious’ parents, whose concern was to make their children into ‘good Christians’, oppressed them through their human love and achieved the opposite to what they wanted.
Children are pr...
See everything with good thoughts
Saint Paisios the Athonite
20 October 2018
When people see everything with good thoughts, they’re cleansed and given Grace by God.
With bad thoughts, you condemn and wrong others, you prevent the Grace of God coming and the devil has high hop...
The Repercussions of the Decisions of the Seventh Ecumenical Synod in the West
Panteleimon Levakos, Theologian
20 October 2018
The second month of the Church’s year is linked to the celebration of the Seventh Ecumenical Synod. This was a synod which was accompanied by one of the most violent interventions by the State in the ...
