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It’s suicide Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff 22 January 2023 Egocentrism is distorted love for oneself. It’s absurd and destructive. People who love themselves passionately pursue anything and everything that’s worthless, transient and sinfully pleasurable....
They feel responsible Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 21 January 2023 The faithful who experience sanctity in Orthodoxy, voluntarily take upon their shoulders the universal responsibility for the evil that exists in the world. They place themselves below all other p...
Existential joy in theological discourse Archimandrite Kyrillos Kostopoulos 20 January 2023 The return to the deification of reason is a feature of the modern era, though its impressive technological achievements also involve the fear factor and the risk of surprises for the future of humank...
More than anything Saint Ambrose of Optina - Saint Ambrose of Optina 20 January 2023 If you can imprint the joyous name of Jesus Christ on the heart of a child, it’s more than all the little crosses and icons you give them. Saint Ambrose of Optina...
On the Creation (excerpt from: On the Incarnation of the Word) Saint Athanasius 19 January 2023 Although this text was written in the 4th century, it is relevant today in that it addresses opinions which are still in vogue. Even now, for example, there are some people who believe that the univer...
You’ve got a long way to go Archimandrite Symeon Krayiopoulos † 19 January 2023 You’ve decided to go to God to be cleansed, but that doesn’t mean that you’ve already been cleansed. The thing is to return to God and be firm; your soul will be cleansed, little by little. God ac...
Don’t lose heart Saint John of Kronstadt 18 January 2023 If, at the time of prayer, or, indeed, other times, the enemy fills your mind with coarse thoughts, don’t despair. Keep saying to yourself: ‘The Lord came to earth so that I might be cleansed from...
Let’s envy the one Sophia Bekri, Theologian 17 January 2023 It used to be said that nobody is as ungrateful as a person you’ve done a good turn to and that nobody’s a firmer enemy. This was meant as censure on the passion of ingratitude and to emphasize the te...
‘Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth’ Metropolitan Panteleimon of Veria, Naousa and Kampania 17 January 2023 Today’s Epistle reading deals with life and death. Not the life and death of a particular person, but with the life of Christ and the death of who we were. Beginning with the words of Christ that h...
Three times Saint Makarios of Optina 17 January 2023 If you need  to take a quick decision and you realize that you have to consult somebody on the issue that’s occupying you but there isn’t anyone nearby that can advise you, turn to God and, as the...
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