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Very gently
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
4 June 2018
Say the prayer internally, with the mind, not with the lips, so that there’s no distraction, with your mind going all over the place. We should place Christ gently in our mind, saying ‘Lord Jesus Ch...
Like an assassin
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
3 June 2018
Gossip is condemnation, it’s slander. Gossips are people who condemn and slander their neighbours and take away their honour in the same way as a murderer takes away their life. Both of them are gui...
Not just with words
Saint John Chrysostom
2 June 2018
Nothing’s difficult when we want to do it and nothing’s easy when we don’t. We should show our faith in Christ not only in words, but also in deeds, so that we don’t bring shame on our dogma through...
The Church, Christ, the Holy Spirit and Us
2 June 2018
1. The period before Easter, which the Church calls Great Lent, culminating in Great Week, is a time of struggle against sin and the contrary spirit. It’s an education in dying to whatever estranges u...
Victory is ours
Elder Tadej Vitovničk
1 June 2018
We live this life forever enslaved to material things, but the angels don’t. This life was given to us so that we might learn about the life eternal, learn how we can become free, how we can progres...
We have to leave
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
31 May 2018
Christ was transfigured on Mount Tabor. According to the holy Fathers, He thus made it clear to us that if we want to experience the mysteries of divine Grace, we have to abandon the cares of the wo...
Gather your strength
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
30 May 2018
In this world, son, people are divided into good and bad, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, polite and rude, clever and stupid. But they all have one thing in common: pain.
When you’re in pai...
He did something more
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
29 May 2018
If you want somebody to understand you, you have to become like them. This is what God did: He became human, spoke like us, interacted with us on all human levels- except sin- and so was able to com...
The New Martyr Nannos (Ioannis) the Thessalonian (+1802)
Thanasis Hatzimitakos
29 May 2018
The new martyr Nannos/Ioannis belongs to the Macedonian new martyrs. He was martyred in Smyrna in 1802 when he was only 17 years old. He was born in Thessaloniki of Macedonian parents. His father came...
The path to Paradise
Elder Epifanios Theodoropoulos †
28 May 2018
I want to go to Paradise, even if I’m the last one in, after the world person ever. As long as God puts me in, He can have put Nero and Hitler in before me and I’ll even shine their shoes. It’s no b...





