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The gate is narrow
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
3 March 2018
My life’s been hard and difficult, but I’ve never prayed to God to make it easy. Because ‘the gate is narrow and the road that leads to life is grievous, and there are few who find it’ (Matth. 7, 14... 
They darken the mind
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
2 March 2018
It’s egotism that prevents people from loving God and their neighbour. Christians strive to root out egotism from within themselves, to root out the passions that darken their mind and make a prison...
Forget everything
Saint Dimitri of Rostov
1 March 2018
Your complete union with God will be achieved if you cultivate uninterrupted communion with Him through prayer. Forget everything earthly and vain and turn all your desire and enthusiasm towards Him...
International Symposium of Byzantologists “NIS AND BYZANTIUM XVII”
28 February 2018
"Restoration of Byzantium in the Balkans in 1018"
It is our great pleasure to inform you that the City of NiS in cooperation with the University of NiS and the Ortodox NiS Eparchy, organizes the 171b...
Do not feed your passions by yielding to them
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
28 February 2018
Do not feed your passions by yielding to them, so that you do not suffer pain and affliction later! Labor now, as much as you can, because otherwise, if the passions are not tended to, in time they ...
That’s not it
Saint Ambrose of Milan
27 February 2018
What does ‘May Your name be hallowed’ mean? As if we’re praying that He should be hallowed Who said: ‘You shall be holy, for I your Lord and God am holy’ (Lev. 19, 2). As if our own words have the p...
Fasting and its Benefits (3)
Saint John of the Ladder
27 February 2018
1. As we’re now going to speak of the stomach, we’ve decided again- as with all our themes- to turn our philosophy against ourselves. Because I wonder if anyone has ever been free of it before residin...
Look up
Elder Amvrosios Lazaris
26 February 2018
Don’t be too attached to earthly things. Look above, to Paradise and to Him Who’s waiting for you. And you should know that we won’t achieve anything by ourselves. The Grace of God will help us....
Great Lent: Sunday Bible Reading Week 1
26 February 2018
As we begin the blessed period of Holy and Great Lent, our Metropolis offers the faithful, and those interested in learning about Orthodoxy, another unique spiritual initiative.
Last year, with the b...
