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The Lord awaits
Elder Efsevios Yannakakis
14 December 2017
Whether you live for five years or a hundred and five is of no consequence. What matters is the health of the soul. Good for those, who, in a case of illness face it with repentance! Whether they li... 
Everything’s deceptive
Saint John of Kronstadt
13 December 2017
Your life on earth is a strait-jacket. Everything betrays you: family, friends, acquaintances, riches, sensory pleasures. Even your own body will leave you at some point. All the elements of nature ...
They hide the sun
Saint John the Sinaite
12 December 2017
Just as the clouds hide the sun, so wicked thoughts darken and destroy the mind....
Answer and solution
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
11 December 2017
People today should avail themselves of the intercession of the Mother of God, which saves us. In every sadness and problem, we shouldn’t forget that there is the ‘help of the sorrowing, the protect...
Form and Substance (Luke 13, 10-17)
Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis
11 December 2017
Today’s Gospel reading is a clear and stark indictment of formalism in religion. Saint Luke tells us that Christ cured someone on the Sabbath and this was cause enough for Him to come into conflict wi...
The Lord’s Prayer
James W. Lillie
11 December 2017
In an interview with an Italian TV network, Pope Francis of Rome said recently that the current language of the Lord’s prayer ‘is not a good translation.’… The problem, as he sees it, is that the pray...
It doesn’t go away
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
10 December 2017
Some Christians, either through their own fault or that of others, become trapped in the sickness of guilt. Secular people become trapped in a worse sickness: that of pride. If you’re close to Chris...
Letter to my newborn daughter
Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist
10 December 2017
It seems like just yesterday that your mother and I left the hospital with all six and three-quarter pounds of you securely fastened in your car seat, your surprisingly full head of hair covered by th...
The binding force
Saint John Chrysostom
9 December 2017
The mother of all good things, the characteristic feature of all the disciples of Christ, and the power that holds all of us together is love. Because, if you’re meek and merciful, this means that y...
With circumspection
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of Our Lady the Guide, Portaria
8 December 2017
Let every task by undertaken with due deliberation and the fear of God. As we’re working, we should say the ‘prayer’: ‘Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy upon me’; ‘Most Holy Mother of God, save us’....
