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Painful feeling
Saint Maximos the Confessor
23 April 2016
The wrath of God is an excruciating feeling for those who are being instructed by God. And it becomes an excruciating feeling when unwanted pains come along. Through these God often guides an intellec... 
Monk Pakhomios Pantokratorinos (1880-22 April 1974)
22 April 2016
The Kelli of Saint George the Manifested at Pantokratoran Kapsala
Born Nikolaos Triandafyllou, he was from the village of Kalyvia in Northern Evia. He emigrated to America and was a married man with...
Why there are unhappy people
Saint Gregory V, Patriarch of Constantinople
22 April 2016
If each of us did whatever good we could, there wouldn't be unhappy people in the world.
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Saint Paisios the Athonite teaches spiritual dignity and generous pride
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
22 April 2016
The Elder often advised us to have spiritual dignity and generous pride. These were the virtues that distinguished him, too, as everybody knew who met him. I once went to visit him in his old kelli of...
Fight with determination
Saint Theophan the Recluse
21 April 2016
Love of pleasure opens the door of our soul to the enemy. If you fight this with firm resolve, then it will be very difficult for any passion to overcome you.
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Saint Joasaph of Meteora
Georgios Martzelos
20 April 2016
St Joasaph was the son of the pious ruler of Epirus and Thessaly Symeon Sinisi, who was descended from the royal house of Nemanja and was proclaimed “tsar of the Greeks, the Serbs and the Albanians” u...
The Position of the Church on Abortion
Valarie H. Protopapas
20 April 2016
In order to consider the question properly, it is necessary to review the doctrines of the Church on abortion and then define, as far as possible within this short study, the concept of oikonomia.
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The positive side of insults
20 April 2016
Insults cleanse our soul of the passions. In Greek there's an expression for this: if somebody insults another person, they can say: 'I gave him or her a good washing down'. And so they did.
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Our breath
Elder - Thaddeus of Vitovnica
19 April 2016
We often forget that we're merely visitors passing through this life and should therefore live in ceaseless prayer, because prayer is the breath of our soul. Prayer attracts energy from the source of ...
My self is an Other
Chrysostomos Stamoulis
19 April 2016
My dear friends,
Thus spake, in a little book entitled A Collection of Thoughts, Kiki Dimoula, an outstanding poet to whom the Department of Theology at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki had...
