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Don’t pick the wrong fight
Saint Isaac the Syrian
16 November 2022
Saint Efraim said that you don’t fight the summer heat with winter clothing. Every sickness, therefore, is cured with its own medicines. If, perhaps, you’re possessed by envy, why do you persist i... 
The Christmas Fast
Georgios Arabatzoglou
15 November 2022
Another blessed period of fasting begins, a time of spiritual struggle and an effort to turn our mind to God, each of us with the strength and spiritual ‘nobility’ at our disposal, and, as always, in ...
It’s twisted and disgusting
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
15 November 2022
Death is unnatural, twisted and disgusting. It’s always our final enemy. From antiquity until the last few decades people have faced death with intense existential interest. But today, almost on a...
On Alms-Giving
Saint John Chrysostom
14 November 2022
On November 12 we celebrate the memory of Saint John the Almsgiver, Patriarch of Alexandria and on November 13, the memory of Saint John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Once more, time’s bee...
What do we mean when we say ‘deification’?
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
14 November 2022
(Ed. Stelios Koukos)
When we say ‘deification’, we mean the elevation of a person beyond the natural state and to similarity to God, as far as this is possible. This is attainable because of the inca...
Something’s going on
Saint Paisios the Athonite
14 November 2022
When we don’t feel consolation and joy in our prayer, like a little child going to the arms of their mother, then we’ve either hurt somebody by our behavior and callousness or there’s pride involv...
Are there limits to human kindness? (8th Sunday of Luke)
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.
13 November 2022
It’s right and proper, if you’re in a hurry to get to work, to your office, or to go about your business that you should stop on the way and help somebody in need, even though you risk being late, los...
Very difficult
Elder Panayis from Lysi
13 November 2022
Christ said that when there are two people who agree about everything he’ll give them whatever they request. It’s usually very difficult for two people to agree. For that to happen, they both need...
Sermon on the Apostolic reading – 8th Sunday of Luke (2 Corinthians 4: 6-15)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
12 November 2022
The Apostle Paul, in today’s passage from the 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians, illustrates for us the great help that the worker of the Gospel receives from God. Our faith that God has given us is a tr...
I’m a debtor
Saint John of Kronstadt
12 November 2022
Every moment I’m in debt to the Lord, spiritually and bodily. Spiritually for my sins; bodily because I take for granted all his material gifts, such as food, clothing, air, heating, light and gen...
