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Like a loom
Elder Gavriil, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Apostle Barnabas
4 December 2022
Like a loom, the bed of pain weaves the garment of salvation and virtue, because as the Apostle Paul says, the more the outer person declines, the more the inner person is renewed.
Elder Gavrii... 
Saint Porfyrios: ‘Get yourself Home, your Daughter’s Committing Suicide!’
3 December 2022
One time, a well-known lawyer told me: ‘I had a case involving a lady of very high standing, an exceptional person, extremely well-educated. But she didn’t go to church, didn’t confess, didn’t believe...
Saint Porphyrios Kavsokalyvitis (Part III)
George Arvanitis
3 December 2022
d) Immortality
The victory over death, the sense and assurance of immortality is an experience that is common to all the saints and Elder Porphyrios himself. In the recorded interview mentioned ...
Don’t get upset
Saint - Saint Seraphim of Sarov
3 December 2022
If you’ve eaten too much or given in to some other weakness, don’t upset yourself, don’t add a wound to a wound. Step up boldly, rectify your behavior and keep peace in your soul.
Saint Seraphi...
Saint Porfyrios Revealed the Rescue of Greek Sailors in Mexico!
Abbess Styliani Holy Monastery of the Pantokrator-Tao †
2 December 2022
One morning, a woman dressed in black and weeping bitterly came to our monastery
‘Why did my parish priest send you here? What can you do for me?’
She was crying the whole time.
A nun asked her wh...
Saint Porphyrios Kavsokalyvitis (Part II)
George Arvanitis
2 December 2022
His most essential characteristics
In our opinion, the most essential characteristics of Elder Porphyrios’s personality were as follows: first of all, the fact that his membership of the Church ...
Difficult and sweet
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
2 December 2022
The Gospel message of sanctification can be put into practice by any person, at any age and irrespective of their social standing. The struggle to achieve sanctity gives authentic meaning to our e...
The compassionate heart
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
1 December 2022
How greatly almsgiving contributes to prayer. If you want to pray you have to become a generous person. Generous in the whole meaning of the word. If people say a kind word to someone else, or offer t...
Saint Porphyrios Kavsokalyvitis (Part I)
George Arvanitis
1 December 2022
‘Now you must be thinking, from what I’ve told you, that – well, I don’t know – I’m quite something. Well, I’m nothing, although I do try and am just beginning, it seems, to get a taste of the things ...
Do you love monasticism?
Saint Justin Popovich
1 December 2022
You’re an Orthodox Christian.
You don’t like monasticism?
You’re leaning towards Protestantism.
Saint Justin Popović...
