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Journey of a Young Artist: The Seeds of “The Mystery of Art”
Jonathan Jackson
18 January 2017
Whoever wants to become a Christian, must first become a poet. — Saint Porphyrios
When I was young, they brought me to Babylon
And the night hung over my head
The smoke came into my dreams
In the... 
Like a broken mirror
Elder Tadej Vitovničk
17 January 2017
We make it very hard for God to appear to us when we’re like a broken mirror on the shards of which even spiritual matters are reflected and reduplicated in a hundred different ways. Christ came int...
The Mystery of Art by Jonathan Jackson
Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia
17 January 2017
In Greece, our knowledge of Hollywood stars is restricted almost exclusively to watching them at the cinema or on television. Jonathan Jackson, however, has broken this pattern. He came to Greece, the...
Be still and know God
Fr. Stephen Freeman
17 January 2017
There is a point of stillness within us, though we rarely recognize it. We inhabit the world of our thoughts and feelings and rarely find them to be quiet. Almost nothing challenges the “normalcy” of ...
When does it wane?
Saint Isaac the Syrian
16 January 2017
Zeal is the dog which guards the law of God, which is virtue. Like a fiery furnace, zealous people heat up, like the Cherubim and are on the lookout at every moment for the traps and attacks of the ...
Sermon on Gratitude
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
16 January 2017
17 December 1989
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
Ten lepers came to the Lord; ten men who were ritually unclean and therefore, ritually rejected by their community, unable to ...
How to Make Friends at Church
Elizabeth Mainson
16 January 2017
Some time ago, I was approached by a new parishioner, after Liturgy, with a question, “How do I become closer to the people at church?” Shocked and saddened that she even had to ask that question (...
Spiritually weak
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
15 January 2017
When I first went to Elder Iosif, he began his supervision and his cure from the very first day. He was very strict with me, always chastising me and berating me. He tired me out, because I was spir...
Cut off the passions before the soul becomes accustomed to them – 2
Saint Abba Dorotheos
15 January 2017
When I was in the coenobium, the Abbot, with the consent of the Elders, made me guest-master. I was, at the time, recovering from a serious illness. Strangers came and I stayed up with them; camel-dri...
Be prepared
Saint Amfilokhios Makris
14 January 2017
So we must be prepared to defend and to witness....
