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Not even at feasts
Saint John Chrysostom
12 March 2023
Just as those who don’t feel any burden on their conscience should come to holy communion every day, so those who are laden down with sins and haven’t repented shouldn’t partake even at a feast. S... 
It cries out of love
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
11 March 2023
People welcome the loving kindness and great mercy of the Holy Trinity and in return offer a heart that’s continuously repenting, thanking, glorifying and crying out of love for the Lord. It’s alw...
Saint Gregory Palamas and the Hesychasts (2nd Sunday in Lent)
Pavlos Mouktaroudis
11 March 2023
The second Sunday in Lent is devoted to Saint Gregory Palamas (14th century), a hesychast from the Holy Mountain and later Archbishop of Thessaloniki.
Saint Gregory Palamas defended the hesychasts ...
As often as you’re inundated
Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
10 March 2023
As often as people feel in their hearts the sweetness of love for God, so often are they flooded with joy. Just as honey’s a joy to taste, so love for God brings joy to our heart, because we ‘tast...
That’s not our aim
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
9 March 2023
Our aim in life is to become perfect and holy. To show ourselves to be children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. We should be careful lest, for the sake of this present life, we’re ...
The theology of the holy icons [2]
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
8 March 2023
The icon in Orthodoxy teaches the mystery of the incarnation of the Son and Word of God. Refusal to venerate and honor an icon of him is tantamount to denying his incarnation. Moreover, the saints a...
They call it the queen
Saint John the Valaam
8 March 2023
It’s good that you practice the Jesus prayer. The holy fathers call this prayer the queen of the virtues, because it attracts other virtues to the soul. But the more sublime the prayer, the more e...
Greater than the first
Saint Silouan the Athonite
7 March 2023
I’ve learned that love varies as regards its intensity. Those who fear God are afraid to sadden him in some way; that’s the first stage. Those whose minds are free of malicious thoughts have reach...
The theology of the holy icons
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
6 March 2023
On the first Sunday in Lent we celebrate the restoration of the holy icons. The Church celebrates. Orthodoxy celebrates. The human race celebrates, since all of us are made in the image (icon) of God....
The Orthodox Church: come and see
Sotiris Stylianou
6 March 2023
The Gospel reading read in churches on the first Sunday in Lent, on 5 March 2023, is John 1, 44-52. Jesus is in Judea, where three of his later disciples and Philip, another later disciple, have just ...
