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Wildfire Saint Theodoros of Edessa 13 April 2016 People who are overcome by the desires and pleasures and spend their lives out in this world will quickly fall into the snares of sin. And once sin's occurred, it's fire on dry grass, a stone rolling ...
Offshoot of avarice Saint John Chrysostom 13 April 2016 All the evil you'll ever come across is the offshoot of the love of money. Wherever you find it growing: in the home, in the market-place, in the courts, in the legislatures or in the highest places i...
Confession: The sacrament of repentance and reconciliation Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou 12 April 2016 Few would argue against the statement that the Sacrament of Confession is on the decline in the Greek Orthodox Church. While it is not my intention here to explain the reasons for it, one could specul...
They’ve got no room Saint Paisios the Athonite 12 April 2016 Let's not expect spiritual understanding from people who don't believe in God. Let's pray that God will forgive them and show them His light. And don't tire yourself out trying to talk about the truth...
It can’t be done without Christ Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis 11 April 2016 Without Christ, it's impossible to set ourselves straight and to free ourselves from the passions. We can't become good on our own. Love for Christ's the only remedy for the passions. ...
The Vital Contribution of Monasticism Today Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios, Ierotheos 11 April 2016 Monks and nuns aren’t weird people who, out of some sort of personal whim, have left the cities to go and lived in some monastery or other. They are, in fact, ‘angels of God’ according to Saint John C...
Saint John Chrysostom preaches to us on the refugee crisis Saint John Chrysostom 10 April 2016 They say that these are fugitives, foreigners and wretches. That they’ve left their homelands in order to gather in our city. So tell me, is this why you’re distressed and want to destroy the glory of...
Why we have to be ‘wise as serpents’? 9 April 2016 ‘Father’ said someone, ‘Holy Scripture advises us to be “wise as serpents”. Explain to us the meaning of the phrase’. ‘When the time comes for the snake to change its skin’, he answered, it goes thro...
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware: “Salvation in Christ” 9 April 2016 Metropolitan of Diokleia and Director of the Cambridge Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Kallistos Ware, speaks about the meaning of Salvation in Orthodox Church...
The passkey Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher 8 April 2016 Prayer's a spiritual weapon with which we solve all our problems. It's the master key to all the locks in the world, all the difficulties of life. Through their prayers, people who believe properly br...
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