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My acquaintance with Elder Josef of Vatopedi
25 May 2016
Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papadakis speaks about his acquaintanceship with Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos and the benefit he was able to feel from his spiritual state and teaching. ... 
The protection of heaven
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
24 May 2016
There’s a worse inundation than water: if you're inundated by the passions. When the passions start to burn, when they begin to smoke and blacken everything, when they give off their stench and it get...
The New Battlefield – the period between conception and implantation
Valarie H. Protopapas
24 May 2016
The danger in setting the period between conception and implantation as an acceptable time to destroy the already conceived child is that it is both arbitrary and artificial without any real medical...
Don’t let their reactions bother you
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
23 May 2016
When children are hurt and wounded by something serious, don't let it bother you if they behave badly. They don't really want to, but can’t help it when it's hard for them. They're sorry afterwards.
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The Mother of God was the first to see the risen Christ
Saint Gregory Palamas
22 May 2016
The Myrrh-bearing women were those who followed Christ and His Mother. They stayed with Him at the time of His saving Passion and anointed the Lord’s body with myrrh.
When Joseph and Nicodemus asked ...
The Vine and Wine in Holy Scripture and their symbolism in the Divine Eucharist
Thomas Mavromoustakos, Professor of the Department of Chemistry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
22 May 2016
Wine and the Holy Scriptures: the books of the Bible, texts inspired by God are full of poetic hymns to the vine and its produce and contain numerous symbolic references to them. How can we forget Psa...
Sin harms us not God
Archimandrite Theodosios Martzoukhos
21 May 2016
Very often, in our minds we think that the religious life has to do with God and that sin also has to do with Him. This is a mistake. The Church is a sanatorium, the disease is our own and we go there...
They aren’t like me
Saint Arsenie Boca
21 May 2016
To condemn means that i have no patience and love for others. And I have no patience with them because I don't have love. Condemnation means that all the others aren't like me. It means that if I'd be...
Family Upbringing at the Table
Stella Argyrou
20 May 2016
The table is where the family gathers. Everyone’s there, sharing the day’s news, relaxing and exchanging views and experiences, all in connection with the consumption of a meal.
Apart from the obviou...
