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He gives you His own
Saint Makarios the Egyptian
11 November 2017
When God sees that you attribute to Him what you’ve achieved on your own, He, in turn, will favour you with what is His, spiritual and divine things.... 
The Rise of Fotios the Great to the Patriarchal Throne and the Composition of the Work ‘The Prince’
Agapi Papadopoulou, Theologian
11 November 2017
When Emperor Basil I ascended the throne, in 867, major changes occurred in both the political and ecclesiastical spheres. He had murdered both Vardas and Emperor Michael III in order to achieve his g...
The evil arrows
Saint John Chrysostom
10 November 2017
What are the arrows of the devil? The wicked desires, the unclean thoughts, the destructive passions, anger, wishing ill, envy, rage, hatred, love of money and every other kind of indolence. All of ...
“Between you and us a great chasm has been fixed”
10 November 2017
“Between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us”. (Luke 16:26)
Why is there such a gap betw...
Tell Our Lady
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
9 November 2017
Whatever you want to your children, say it in your prayers. Children don’t hear with their ears. It’s only when God’s Grace comes and illumines them that they listen to what we want to tell them. Wh...
Greek Monasticism in the 19th Century [3]
Protopresbyter George Metallinos
9 November 2017
The Spiritual Continuation
However, the most substantive problem that always faces monasticism is not so much the external organization and the quantitative elements, as its internal state, its spiri...
Neither position, nor time, nor manner
Saint John Chrysostom
8 November 2017
How many good things will those people enjoy who’ve been granted the chance to speak to God? Because prayer’s a dialogue with God and doesn’t require a particular position of the body, a certain pla...
The Geography of Heaven and Hell
Fr. Stephen Freeman
7 November 2017
A timely reprint – for thinking about heaven and hell. I continue to be amazed at the literalism that infects the minds of many Christians. Just because Scripture uses the language of geography to des...
Anybody can change
Saint Peter the Damascan
7 November 2017
A sign of the first fear is if you hate sin and become enraged at it, as if you’ve been wounded by a wild animal. A sign of perfect fear is to love virtue and to fear alteration, because nobody’s sa...
Monk Hariton, the New Martyr of Kosovo
Hieromonk Stefan of Dečani
7 November 2017
The Lord’s words, Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul (Matt. 10:28) have inspired many generations of Christians over the past two thousand years, since the sacrificial...
