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How the monks on the Holy Mountain make kollyva I. M. Hatzifotis 23 October 2016 Separate memorial services are not held for monks on the Holy Mountain. Together with the kollyva for the Saint, a small saucer of kollyva is prepared for the departed. Abbots over the last 100 years ...
Locusts and wild honey James W. Lillie 23 October 2016 In the synaxarion for Saint James (October 23), we’re told that, like Saint John the Baptist, “he never ate anything that had had the breath of life within it”. Yet we’re also told that John ate locus...
Bulgarian Orthodox Church receives relics of Saint Luke of Crimea 22 October 2016 On 21th October 2016 Bulgarian Orthodox Church received relics from saint Luke (Luka Voyno Yasenetsky), Archbishop of Crimea and Sympheropol, confessor and wonderworker (1877-1961). Shortly after g...
It’s not part of us Saint John Chrysostom 22 October 2016 It’s entirely obvious that wickedness and evil are the result of our disposition. Evil isn’t a component part of our nature, but the result of our free will. The devil is called the preeminent evil on...
What are the passions and which are the worst of them all? 22 October 2016 Created as God-like from the beginning, man would not accept anything irrational in his thoughts and in his life. All his thoughts and his motions were proper since they had been illuminated by the di...
One Good Thought: A Good Word is an Oasis Edna King 22 October 2016 A bad word makes even good people bad, but a good word turns even bad people into good. +Saint Macarius the Elder Our words have so much power, yet it’s so easy to say them without thinking. Have...
Beautiful pages Elder Efsevios Yannakakis 21 October 2016 People who struggle against sin write the most lovely pages in God’s book. Because everything’s written there....
Orthodox Christian Stewardship: What do Jesus, the Bible, and the Church Fathers Say about Tithing and Giving to God? John G. Panagiotou 21 October 2016 “Where your treasure is there will your heart be also.” These words of Jesus have resonated within the hearts of people for two thousand years. What was Jesus talking about? What do Jesus, the Bible, ...
Good and bad spiritual guides Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia 21 October 2016 Many Christians are troubled by the issue of how to choose spiritual guide. What characteristics should they look for and what kind of relationship should develop between them? In an address to an in...
Nourish yourself Saint John of Kronstadt 20 October 2016 When you pray, try very hard to feel in your heart the power and the truth of the words of the prayer. Be nourished by them, because they’re imperishable food. Water your heart with them, because they...
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