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We become corpses
Abbess Gavriïlia
16 November 2016
When God made us, He gave us life and breathed His Spirit into us. That Spirit is love! When love deserts us, we become lifeless bodies. We’re dead then.... 
The Presents of Presence
Magnus Frangipani
16 November 2016
In the forty days prior to Christmas, the Christians fast from meat, dairy, fish, wine and oil anticipating the birthing into the world of Jesus Christ, the Bread of Life. In my experience, the Nativi...
What the devil’s achieved
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
15 November 2016
The devil’s managed to make himself disappear and to get people to use other names for him. They don’t accept that it’s the devil who’s behind egotism in people and who fosters it....
The readings in liturgy
15 November 2016
After the Thrice-Holy Hymn, we have the Readings: the Epistle, that is a portion of some Apostolic text (from the Acts of the Apostles or an Epistle by an Apostle) and the Gospel, that is an extract f...
Obstacles everywhere
Elder Aimilianos Simonopetritis †
14 November 2016
If I benefit those who do me harm, this brings me peace. Because, in the end, everybody makes stumbling-blocks for us. With a word, a look, the way they walk, their joy, their sorrow, they interfere...
Saint Gregory Palamas
Georgios Martzelos
14 November 2016
St Gregory Palamas was one of the greatest patristic figures of the Church. In his teaching on the divination of man and his real participation in the uncreated energies of God, he expressed the esse...
Moses’ Life according to Philon the Alexandrian and Gregory of Nyssa
Dimitris Baltas
14 November 2016
Oἱ Βίοι. It is the conviction that most of the times it is useful to know the way of acting of some important men that has led to the writing of biographies. Biographies concern the comparative ex...
Good grounding and large families: two great gifts in the Church
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th.
14 November 2016
The prayers at a wedding make reference to providing children with a good upbringing and to ‘the enjoyment of procreation’. It may be that the Fathers of the Church, by and large, praise the superiori...
Variations in the Spiritual Life (Teachings from Athos)
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
14 November 2016
Even though we’re in the season of winter, we had a fine day yesterday, with lots of sunshine. We felt the weather had taken a turn for the better, and then today it changed again and we’ve got turb...
We should see the error
Saint Diadokhos of Fotiki
13 November 2016
The light of true knowledge is to be able to tell the difference, without error, between good and evil. Then the path of virtue, leading the intellect to God, the Sun of Righteousness, brings it into ...
