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The response of the relics of the departed saints to the Easter greeting
Stelios Koukos
3 October 2022
The Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, relics of the saints
In 1463 the archimandrite of the Monastery of the Caves was the blessed Nicholas. On Easter day that year, when all Christians were celebrating the ‘dea...
Love for your enemies is a challenge of life (Luke 6, 31-36)
Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis
3 October 2022
Christ stands us before a mirror today so that can see our weakness and monitor our condition. ‘As you wish people to do to you, do so to them’. In other words, do as you would be done by. Such an att...
Our difficulties are opportunities
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
3 October 2022
Our everyday life seems to be made difficult by all the problems, small and great, it involves, but it’s also made beautiful by all the delightful and pleasant aspects, great or small. It’s never only...
They should become persons
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
3 October 2022
People have to remove the persona of the passions and become persons. Purification of the heart from the passions should be their main priority in life In this struggle, they don’t attempt to conf...
Is it the same?
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
2 October 2022
Whenever we go to pray, we’re always wanting something from God, never God himself. Can you call that a relationship? Is that the way we behave towards our friends? Do we look more towards what th...
This is what’s important
Saint Silouan the Athonite
1 October 2022
No matter your station in life, you can love God and be pleasing to him- and that’s the important thing. And those who love God more on earth will have greater honor in the Kingdom and will be clo...
Advice on anxiety
Saint Paisios the Athonite
30 September 2022
Worldly anxiety is the product of worldly prosperity, of worldly success. People try to ease their stress either with tranquillizers or with yoga exercises, but they don’t seek real calm, which comes ...
Or else you’re lost
Dimitrios Panagopoulos, preacher
30 September 2022
The one thing the devil fears is humility. As he confessed to Anthony the Great, humility’s the only thing he can’t achieve. Never let yourself believe that you’re something. Otherwise, you’re los...
They should be willing
Saint Anthony the Great
29 September 2022
People who think it’s a misfortune to lose money, children, servants or any other part of their possessions should know that first they should be satisfied with what God gives them. And when the t...
Don’t sleep
Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis
28 September 2022
And God tests us, at times, in order to wake us up, as it were. God sends you a temptation to keep you awake. Don’t sleep, don’t sleep. Say the prayer.
Elder Efraim Katounakiotis...