Search Results for: ""
Great Lent: Sunday Bible Reading Week 4
19 March 2018
Today’s Gospel (Mark 9:17-31, see sidebar), read on the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent (Sunday of St. John Climacus) brings together a number of themes that we have highlighted throughout our Great Lent:... 
The Power of Prayer
Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis
18 March 2018
‘This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting’ . This phrase in the Gospel reading concerning the miraculous cure of the possessed young man suggests the power and value of prayer...
It’s clear
Saint Mark the Ascetic
18 March 2018
We know that the Lord wants us to bear insults, mockery and hardships with patience, while the devil desires the opposite. So if we give in to what the devil suggests, it’s clear that we’ve turned o...
It’s extinguished
Saint Silouan the Athonite
17 March 2018
When the soul loses humility, it also loses grace and the love for God, and then fervent prayer is extinguished....
The devil’s delight
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
16 March 2018
Humble yourself and confess from now on, because confession involves holy humility, without which nobody can be saved. It’s a great joy for the devil if he can persuade people to hide their diabolic...
It’ll be an impediment
Saint Nilos the Ascetic
15 March 2018
If you want to pray properly, don’t sadden anybody. Otherwise you’re praying in vain. Whatever you’ve done against someone else, who’s wronged you, will come back to haunt you at the time of prayer....
Wealth and Poverty
Saint John Chrysostom
15 March 2018
The rich are useless. Yes, useless, unless they’re generous and charitable. But, unfortunately, not many rich people are distinguishged for their love of others. Most of them wallow in self-love, in h...
The three loves
Saint Paisios the Athonite
14 March 2018
For me there are three kinds of love: that of the flesh, which is full of spiritual germs; secular love, which is superficial, formal, hypocritical and without depth; and spiritual love, which is tr...
The Message of the Cross
Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis
14 March 2018
In every age, the message of the Cross has sounded strange. In our own era, however, when comfort and prosperity have been raised to god-like status, the message of the Cross isn’t merely absurd but i...
