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They don’t really work properly
Saint Sophrony of Essex
1 June 2017
If we trust our intuition on things of the utmost importance, then any and every mistake can be a threat and can even lead to our perdition. So it’s in this sense that you should be obedient to the ... 
When People Don’t Forgive
Abbot Tryphon
1 June 2017
There are people who insist on holding on to resentment, often inventing situations in their minds that never happened, justifying their bad behavior, and putting the blame on others. They see thems...
Won’t you even try?
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
31 May 2017
The Lord has taken ninety-nine of the steps needed for your salvation. Are you not prepared to take the last remaining step in order to be saved, especially when ‘… in this way an entrance into the ...
Experiencing the Joy of the Resurrection on the Holy Mountain
K. Leontiev
31 May 2017
The site near the sea where the Russian monastery lies isn’t among the most beautiful locations on the Holy Mountain. The areas surrounding many other monasteries are much more picturesque and attra...
Eldress Theosemni: a Quiet and Hidden Ascetic
31 May 2017
The life of the beloved Eldress Theosemni is a Synaxarion account of perfection in self-emptying and martyric asceticism in silence and humility. Her personage and her venerable example cannot be appr...
Bear this in mind
Abba Dorotheos
30 May 2017
If you want to combat callousness in the soul, it helps to read the divine Scriptures and the words of compunction written by the God-bearing Fathers, to recall God’s judgement and the exit of the s...
The Crisis
Fr. Andrew Phillips, France
30 May 2017
Icon of the Resurrection
It has become commonplace to hear or read that 'the Orthodox Church is in a state of crisis'. Of course this is untrue, indeed it is ontologically impossible, for the gates ...
We should envy them
Saint Basil the Great
29 May 2017
We should consider those people blessed, literally, who live in communion with God, even if they live in a furnace, as did the three holy children in Babylon, or if they’re locked in with lions, or ...
Stability of Place
Abbot Tryphon
29 May 2017
Car Packed to Move
An Elder said: Just as a tree cannot bear fruit if it is often transplanted, so neither can a monk bear fruit if he frequently changes his abode.
In an age when people change add...
