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The voices
Saint Mark the Ascetic
2 August 2018
Only God and the conscience know the hidden things of the heart. This is why each of us should correct ourselves by listening to these two voices: those of God and the conscience.... 
Why unlock oneself? A new anthropology growing out of the ancient principle of synergy
Sergey Horujy, Academician
2 August 2018
…When he was in deep meditation in a praying posture with his hands open to the heavens, he saw suddenly how Shesha-Ananta descends down into his open palms. However, he experienced neither fright nor...
It feels its betrayal
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
1 August 2018
Transgression against the commandment brought the fall, which is our estrangement from God and everything that has to do with Him. God accepted our repentance and return to our obedience to His divi...
Everything deceives you
Saint John of Kronstadt
31 July 2018
Your life on earth is tapering off. Everything betrays you: relatives, friends, acquaintances, riches, things pleasing to the senses, even your body itself will at some stage abandon you. All the el...
It doesn’t go away
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
30 July 2018
Some Christians, either through their own fault or that of others find themselves trapped in the sickness of guilt, and a lot of secular people suffer from a worse illness: pride. Now spiritual guil...
Temptations in our Life
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
30 July 2018
Christ performed many miracles. He performed miracles on people, such as when He cured the paralytic at Capernaum, the ten lepers, the son of the widow of Nain and so on. He also performed miracles wh...
The first of the virtues
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
29 July 2018
Patience is a virtue so long as it exists as the fruit of hope in God. Sorrow leads to patience, patience to a tried and tested character and a tried and tested character to hope. And, in the end, h...
What will you gain?
Saint Isaac the Syrian
28 July 2018
Don’t ask anyone’s opinion if they’re not on the same path as you, no matter how wise they are....
The life-belt of the soul
Saint Amfilokhios Makris
27 July 2018
Through the prayer ‘Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon me’, we’ll gain everything. Through this prayer, we’re cleansed, burnished and sanctified. This prayer is the life-belt of the body and of the s...
