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Download our new smartphone app with short narratives from Orthodox Christian Fathers 10 January 2018 The Internet is the sphere of speed, information and image. It’s therefore difficult these days - especially for young people - to read extensive texts with deep meaning, on the Internet. On the other...
They get through easily Saint John Chrysostom 10 January 2018 People who exercise restraint spend the whole of their lives at ease and in great spiritual freedom. Frugality is what feeds the body, since the organism is able to absorb a little at a time. More t...
The Song of Songs and Divine Love † Elder Placide Deseille, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Saint Anthony the Great in France 10 January 2018 In memory of Papa-Efraim Katounakiotis The Song of Songs is the jewel of the Old Testament and, together with the Gospel of Saint John the Theologian, constitutes the centre of divine Revelation. It...
Père Placide Deseille has gone to his rest in the Lord 10 January 2018 At one o’clock, midday, on 7 January (2018), the day when the Orthodox Church honours the Synaxis of the Honourable Forerunner, Archimandrite Placide Deseille departed this life at the age of 91. B...
This is how you’ll become holy Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 9 January 2018 Wear yourself out over your work. But work with devotion, have faith and prayer within you. In this way, you’ll become holy....
They’re happy to do nothing Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis 8 January 2018 Impatience is wickedness and the opposite of the virtue of patience. People who are in thrall to it avoid any effort to do good works, any sorrow suffered for the sake of love. They always tread the...
Two-faced hypocrite Saint John of Kronstadt 7 January 2018 External prayer is often said to the detriment of internal prayer and vice versa. This means that when we pray with our lips, or read, many of the words don’t actually enter our heart, in which case...
Saint John the Baptist 7 January 2018 Sister Vassa is talking today about the holy, great and glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist of the Lord: St. John, the great saint of whom Christ Himself said, “among those born of women there has arisen no one greater“ (Mt 11:11). The Gospels describe John living in the wilderness, wearing clothes of camel‘s hair, and living on extremely frugal food. This great saint might strike some of us as very distant and difficult to relate to. But as exotic as his life may sound, John the Baptist is extremely popular in the Byzantine liturgical tradition, which is filled with prayers, hymns, and feasts dedicated to him. In January, the day after the Baptism of the Lord celebrates John the Baptist (Jan 7), on June 24 his birthday is celebrated; on August 29, his beheading; on September 23, his conception, and there are several other feasts in his honor. Beside those feasts, we remember John the Baptist every Tuesday. Yes, every Tuesday......
They’re not worth our tears Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 6 January 2018 When we talk to people today about mourning, it seems strange to them, because they’re ashamed of crying. If we’re talking about vain, passing things, of course they’re not worth crying over. But th...
From all the dross Abba Kassianos 5 January 2018 Temptations happen to people. To test them, so that their virtue shines through, as happened with Abraham, Job and many other righteous people. So that they can be cleansed of all the stigmas of the...
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