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Fasting and its benefits (2)
26 February 2018
Who is as strong as a lion, but, for the sake of his stomach falls into a trap and the whole of his strength is brought low?
When the fathers in Skete ate bread and salt, they used to say: ‘Let’s not... 
We’d be sunk
Saint Amfilokhios Makris
25 February 2018
On the sea of life sometimes there’ll be storms and sometimes calm. God’s Grace doesn’t abandon us. If it didn’t keep us going, we’d have sunk....
The Fast and its Benefits (1)
25 February 2018
Let us observe an acceptable fast, pleasing to the Lord. A true fast: estrangement from evil, restraint of the tongue, control of anger, abstention from desires, slander, falsehood and perjury. If the...
The Triumph of Divine Truth
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
25 February 2018
16 March 1997
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
We are keeping today, as every year at the end of the first week of Lent, the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. And every year w...
They succeed one another
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
24 February 2018
A monk is suspended between two indescribable conditions: of ineffable bliss when his souls is plunged into the Spirit of God; and of great sorrow over the salvation of the world. These conditions s...
‘The Aristotelian Concept of the Creation of the World in Early Christian Tradition’
24 February 2018
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It’s a wave
Abbess Gavriïlia
23 February 2018
The soul is a wave. Either we’ll become like Saint Peter and walk on it, in the air, or we’ll sink, as did the Prophet Jonah....
The Christian Faith as a Source of Spiritual Power
Mina Boulekou, Author-Poetress- Columnist
23 February 2018
How can devout Christians preserve their faith when they’re being attacked and tested on a daily basis in these harsh times?
Faith in our Triune God is what will sustain us in all the difficulties we...
Darker than the next
Saint John of Kronstadt
22 February 2018
Don’t despair when your soul’s engulfed in the clouds of hell, each one of which is darker than the other. When sheer badness, envy, doubt, stubbornness and the other passions rise up against you, y...
