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An inestimable gift Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 11 February 2023 Repentance is a priceless gift from God to us after the fall. What is achieved through repentance isn’t only cleansing of the heart, but sanctification and glorification. Elder Efraim Vatopaidi...
Let’s open the Triodio with humility Sophia Bekri, Theologian 10 February 2023 The Church doesn’t leave us without consolation. One feast follows another and all together they contribute progressively to the common goal which is our spiritual and mental enhancement and, in the e...
Genuine or affected godliness Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos 10 February 2023 As we enter the time of the Triodio, a period of contrition, the Church loses no time in reminding us of the clear distinction between genuine and affected godliness. At the start of the spiritual str...
We’ll have to answer Saint John of the Ladder 10 February 2023 We won’t ever be condemned for not performing miracles, but we’ll have to answer for the fact that we didn’t weep continuously over our sins. Saint John of the Ladder...
A good word Elder Christodoulos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousi 9 February 2023 The important thing is to get close to, to concentrate on the problem of another person. Offer them something from what you have, be it money, a gift, a smile or something from the abundance of yo...
Like a spring Saint Isaac the Syrian 8 February 2023 When divine grace opens the eyes of your soul, then tears flow like water from a spring, and this is the clearest evidence of a visitation from God. Saint Isaac the Syrian...
They go running Elder Cleopa Ilie 7 February 2023 People who confess regularly, even if they fall into the same, maybe mortal, transgression lose no time in confessing their sin. They again receive remission and the grace of God and so their cons...
The idolization of our self Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos 6 February 2023 Many people have made this point: over recent centuries, led astray by philosophical theories, economic dictates and social systems, people have forgotten God and made themselves independent of him. B...
Saint Photius: The Miracle and the Primacy of Truth Stylianos G. Papadopoulos 6 February 2023 The Miracle of Truth Saint Photius was the chosen vessel of God in his times. He was, in other words, the outstanding, genuine bearer of Tradition and for that reason was the most famous and t...
Humility and prayer (Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee) Metropolitan Agathangelos of Fanari 6 February 2023 The contrast in the image of the parable is stark. ‘Two men went up to the sanctuary to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a publican’. In the first scene of the parable, the attitude of the Phari...
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