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Practical instruction
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
16 July 2018
There’s no other factor that’s so effective as various sorrows, self-inflicted or otherwise, in bringing the mind to a humble outlook. The impossibility of its redemption teaches it in practical ter... 
Then you’ll understand
Abbess Gavriïlia
15 July 2018
When you give yourself completely to the power and love of God, you’ll realize that everything happens because God wants it to, or that He allows it....
Saint Paul’s Chains
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
15 July 2018
What is the greatest glory of Saint Paul the Apostle? What was the greatest of God’s gifts to him? Why should we call him blessed and envy him?
Saint John Chrysostom answers:
‘I call Paul blessed ...
It doesn’t help
Saint Basil the Great
14 July 2018
It’s shameful to waste our time today and then to think back nostalgically on the past, when such sadness does us no good at all....
What we’ll enjoy
Saint Isaac the Syrian
13 July 2018
Through patience we arrive at humility and thereafter we enjoy God’s Grace. Boldness towards God is acquired through a clear conscience and works of virtue....
You can’t uproot them
Saint Mark the Ascetic
12 July 2018
The root of every evil is vainglory and pleasure. If you don’t hate those passions, you won’t be able to get rid of any passion at all....
The globalized and the universal person: on the sacred memory of Saint Païsios
George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
12 July 2018
July 12, the Feast of Saint Païsios
People weren’t made to stay where they are. They were made to become what they aren’t. Our majesty isn’t to be found in the present or the past, but in our future....
What you get for condemning others
Saint John of the Ladder
11 July 2018
Listen to me, listen to me all you harsh judges of other people’s sins. If it’s true- and it really is- that ‘as you judge, so will you be judged’ (Matth. 7, 2), then you can be certain that, as man...
We’ve still got a way to go
Saint Paisios the Athonite
10 July 2018
We haven’t reached the bottom yet, we’ve still got some way to go, but, when we do, things will start to sort themselves out....
