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Prepare to be mocked Saint Innocent 29 December 2016 When you walk the path of Christ, many people- perhaps even your closest relatives- will mock you. Don’t let it bother you. Don’t let it worry you. Remember they mocked Christ as well. But he didn’t...
Person and Spirituality Vasileios T. Gioultsis 29 December 2016 In recent years, there has been much discussion of the difference which exists between the notions of “person” and “individual”. It may be that the progress of the social and anthropological sciences ...
Letter to a person who had to choose between suicide and begging Saint Nicholas Velimirovich 29 December 2016 To a person who had to choose between suicide and begging You write that all your worldly goods were sold off to a third party. When you found yourself out on the street with nothing and nobody, yo...
Spiritual benefits Saint Joseph the Hesychast 28 December 2016 Be careful not to praise one another face to face because praise harms even the perfect, not to mention you who are still weak. Only mockery and humiliations benefit people spiritually. Because they...
Do you have to be demanding? Nikolas Berdiaeff 28 December 2016 The people today who are not themselves close to Christianity claim vehemently that the Christian Church should consist of perfect and saintly people. They are the same ones who condemn the Church for...
The Spiritual Inheritance of Sinai – 1 28 December 2016 Sinai is the meeting point of two continents and the dividing line between two seas. The peninsula, which is often described as “24,000 square metres of useless land”,  is the gateway between Africa a...
Let’s look for Elders who’ll cure us Saint John of the Ladder 27 December 2016 Let’s not seek Elders who have foresight or far-sight, but, above all, let them be humble and capable of the cure of our infirmities. This will appear from the manner of their life and the place and...
The Chief Mechanic and the Operator Ilias Voulgarakis 27 December 2016 Recently, the industrial company ‘World Ltd’ bought from the Japanese firm ‘Sora’, the latest electronic machinery, ‘with cutting-edge technology’. Japanese engineers assembled it and gave it a test...
Slavery USA David W T Brattston 27 December 2016   The Bible and early post-Biblical Christian literature opposes slaveholding by Christians in the 21st-century world, although for a reason you probably did not expect.  This article reconciles Bibl...
Marriage or Monasticism? Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios 27 December 2016 Most young people don’t know how to discover their calling in the life. Whether to dedicate themselves to monasticism or select the marriage path. Some have the feeling that monasticism is a more supe...
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