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It’s beyond their ken
Saint Silouan the Athonite
18 December 2017
Lack of faith is the result of pride. People who are proud claim that they know everything through their mind and science. But knowledge of God is beyond their reach, because He is known only by rev... 
Spiritual Insolence and Zealotry: the Extremes that Afflict the Church
Saint Paisios the Athonite
18 December 2017
Dealing with Church matters
‘Elder, how should we handle difficult Church matters when they arise?’
‘Avoid extremes. Issues aren’t resolved through extremes. In the old days, you’d see a grocer addi...
The two voices
Saint Mark the Ascetic
17 December 2017
What is hidden in our hearts is known only to God and the conscience. So each of us should set ourselves to rights by listening to the voices of both, that is of God and of the conscience....
The Danger of Idolatry Today
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.
17 December 2017
A fundamental demand of Christianity is personal renewal, not as a static event which is accomplished automatically, once and for all, but as a continuous, dynamic progression, with mistakes and corre...
On Almsgiving
Abba Dorotheos
17 December 2017
According to Saint Basil, there are three things which incline us towards doing good, as I’ve mentioned to you before. We may do so because we fear damnation, in which case we’re in the position of a ...
It feels the betrayal
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
16 December 2017
Breaking the commandment brought about the fall, which is our separation from God and everything to do with Him. God accepted our repentance, return and submission to Him once He’d repaired our rela...
May the Phos (Light) be With You
Andrew Estocin
16 December 2017
Popular culture is going to go crazy for Star Wars in the coming months. Count me among the millions of people who cannot wait for the latest installment of Star Wars entitled, The Force Awakens!
Geo...
Whoever we are
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
15 December 2017
The passion of self-aggrandisement sprouts in some way in almost all of us. This is why the Lord begins the beatitudes with it. He roots out pride from our character as being the primordial evil by ...
An Address on Pietism
Grigoris Tzivelekis
15 December 2017
We conceal a serpent in our hearts, a great heresy, the other side of the coin called Ecumenism, and it’s known as pietism. Its parents are fear and wickedness. Its beloved is faithlessness and its of...
