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The rarest dreams
Elder Moses of the Holy Mount Athos
16 March 2023
People know full well that they’ll die one day. Yet they live and function and think as if they’re immortal here on earth. They don’t want to bring their mind to bear on death at all. One of the r... 
They’re little drops
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
15 March 2023
Enjoy everything around us. It all teaches us and leads us to God. All the things around us are droplets of God’s love. Animate and inanimate, plants and animals, birds and mountains, sea and suns...
Charity and Lent
Protopresbyter Antonios Christou
14 March 2023
Dear readers, Great Lent is a time of strenuous, spiritual struggle with ourselves (less sleep, less nutrition, less ease and preoccupation with things we like doing, greater participation in the serv...
Not pontificators
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
14 March 2023
According to Saint Gregory the Theologian, even the opponent, that is the enemy, admires virtue. People who are virtuous in practice and not merely pontificators or moralizers are impressive in t...
By the rivers of Babylon: inconsolable home-sickness
Mihaïl Koutsos
14 March 2023
Psalm 136.
By Jeremiah to David, on captivity
1 By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.
2 We hung our instruments on the willows,
3 for there our captors asked...
Aim and ceaseless desire
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
13 March 2023
Adorn your lamps with virtues. Strive to expel the passions of the soul. Cleanse your heart of all defilement and keep it pure, so that the Lord can come and dwell within you and that the Holy Spi...
Christ’s miraculous cure in Capernaum
Sotiris Stylianou
13 March 2023
The Gospel extract which is read on 12 March 2023 is from Mark (2, 1-12) and concerns the cure of a paralyzed man in Capernaum.
The Lord was teaching in a certain house and so many people had come t...
‘And not to judge my brother’
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
13 March 2023
It’s a constant exhortation on the part of the Church, all the year round, but particularly during Lent. Indeed, the prayer of Saint Efraim the Syrian is a powerful reminder which we repeat on a daily...
Three Ways of Approaching the Lord (2nd Sunday in Lent)
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
12 March 2023
In today’s Gospel, the paralytic arose immediately, took his bed upon his shoulders and walked past everyone. And everyone was amazed and glorified God saying: “We’ve never seen the like”.
Let’s lo...
Saint Gregory Palamas (2nd Sunday in Lent) – A Christian Existentialism
Fr. John Meyendorff
12 March 2023
In its opposition to Barlaamite nominalism, Palamite thought is a solemn affirmation of divine immanence in history and in man. God does not reveal Himself to the world only “through creatures” but di...
