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We inevitably fall
Saint Basil the Great
15 May 2018
If we’re possessed of a vainglorious, contemptuous attitude and have been blinded by pride, then, inevitably, we fall into the same sin as the devil.... 
The Night is Coming when No-One can Work
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
15 May 2018
In the period after Easter, when the services in the Pentecostarion are celebrated, we read the Gospel according to Saint John on Sundays. Essentially, the Evangelist quotes a miracle/cure performed b...
Without wanting to
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
14 May 2018
Lots of people today go chasing after joy, happiness, and go down roads that aren’t clean, but are befouled by the actions of demons. But if ‘the Lord God speaks’ in our heart, then we should be qui...
Every trick
Saint Nilos the Ascetic
13 May 2018
The devil is very envious of those people who pray and uses all sorts of ploys in order to stop them doing so. So when the demons see that you’re ready to pray properly, they remind you of supposedl...
Forum on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Held in Buenos Aires
13 May 2018
Under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a second international forum on modern slavery convened in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 5-8, 2018. This forum, entitled Old Problems in the New World...
He hurls
Saint Paisios the Athonite
12 May 2018
Spiritual people are all pain. In other words, they feel pain for situations and people, but are rewarded for this pain with divine consolation. They feel pain, but also divine consolation within th...
Non-Gender and One-Gender in the Gnostic Gospels
Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th.
12 May 2018
The state of one-genderism is described in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, where, in answer to a question from His disciples regarding the way to enter the Kingdom of God and our salvation, Jesus answer...
No better than animals
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
11 May 2018
Without freedom, people would be just like any other animal. We’d be subject to servitude and our thoughts would revolve in a tight circle, within which they’d be restricted. Ideas of good and evil ...
It blooms like a lily
Saint John of Kronstadt
10 May 2018
When the Lord enters our heart, the desert of the soul blossoms like a lily. Ah, why don’t we turn our hearts to the Lord more often? How much peace and consolation God has in store for us....
