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Freedom obliges
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
30 September 2018
Our moral us to take steps towards our salvation, because otherwise we’ll be lost.
Formal recognition of our moral freedom by the Saviour teaches us that our salvation depends not only on the actio... 
The mountains of passions
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
29 September 2018
The passions are hard material: the Ural Mountains, kilometers high!
Grace is the sun.
It rises, but the shadow of the mountain prevents it from warming the whole created intellect of the person...
All virtues in one
Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou
28 September 2018
All the virtues are aspects of the one, great virtue, the virtue of love.
When, as a Christian, you acquire love, you’ve got all the virtues.
It’s love that expels from our soul the root cause of ...
It’s not food
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
27 September 2018
It’s not food or favourable living conditions that ensure our health. It’s a holy life, the life of Christ.
I know ascetics who fasted very strictly and never had anything wrong with them. Nobody ris...
“Doing the math” – Response by Prof. Christos Zerefos to Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
27 September 2018
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A leap of joy
Saint Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
26 September 2018
Cultivate the Jesus prayer and the time will come when your heart will leap for joy, as it does when you’re about to meet someone dear to you....
Do you want to see God?
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
26 September 2018
Abba Olympios recounts: ‘One time, a pagan priest came down to Skete and slept in my cell. When he saw the way the monks lived he asked me:
“The way you live, do you never see anything of your ...
