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Online assembly this month with Elder Ephraim and Romanian medical professionals 21 October 2022 The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will hold an online assembly on Saturday, Oct. 29, with psychologists, psychiatrists and neurologists based ...
He reveals his deeds to them. Saint Silouan the Athonite 21 October 2022 The Lord is made manifest to humble souls. He reveals his deeds to them, works which are incomprehensible to the mind. With our natural mind, we can understand only earthly matters and then only i...
Come like a thunderbolt Elder Vasilios Gontikakis, former Abbot of the Monastery of Iviron 20 October 2022 I don’t want to live long, nor do I aspire to do so. I want to live with you. You’re living and inexhaustible abundance. Come and let your will be done in me. Come as you wish and whenever you jud...
We need to be guarded Saint John Maximovich 19 October 2022 Just as it is a matter of basic concern that we should be wary of things that can damage our bodily health, so it should be our spiritual concern to be on the lookout for things that can harm our ...
It increases and is perpetuated Elder Christodoulos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousi 18 October 2022 The Fathers of the Church know that evil is caused by, increases through, and is perpetuated by social mechanisms. But they also know that, in the end, it’s the fruit of two great passions: avaric...
Learning Ancient Greek – for non-Greek speakers Absolute Beginners 17 October 2022 About this course Learning Ancient Greek – for non-Greek speakers Ancient Greek, the language of Aeschylus, Aesop, Alexander the Great, Archimedes, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Euclid, Euripides...
It’s preferable Saint Arsenie Boca 17 October 2022 It’s better to suffer wickedness than to become the cause of wickedness. Consternation in those who suffer unjustly is better than the delight of those who deliberately work iniquity. Saint Ars...
When we know it empirically. Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 16 October 2022 People can become persons, because we’re made in the image of the Divine Word, Christ, who is a Person. It’s only when we know and are united to the Triune God that we can become persons and cast ...
They ran and made haste Saint Symeon the New Theologian 15 October 2022 According to the Gospel, the fruit of repentance is the return from sin. This is what the prodigal son did and he was saved. Once he’d abandoned sin, he returned to his father and confessed. This ...
This is how it appears Saint Sophrony of Essex 14 October 2022 At the beginning of repentance, the dominant feeling is sadness, but we soon discover that the energy of new life has entered into us, one which effects an amazing alteration of the nous. This mov...
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