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Who loves perfectly? Fr. Andreas Agathokleous 27 September 2022 I don’t know if, in other eras, people experienced confusion regarding words, that is, that they said one thing and meant another. Despite the great achievements of scientific progress, technological ...
It’s easy Saint Seraphim of Vyritsa 27 September 2022 Even in the most difficult of times, it’s easy to be saved if you engage seriously in the Jesus prayer, ascending through the frequent invocation of the Son of God to ceaseless prayer. Saint Se...
‘Not I, but the grace of God that was with me’ Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos 26 September 2022 ‘But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them- yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me’ (1. Cor. 15, 10). Saint Pa...
‘And leaving everything, they followed him’ Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian 26 September 2022 Today’s Gospel reading tells us how the fishermen of Galilee specifically and in practice denied themselves and their own affairs, followed Christ and became his disciples and apostles. Our Lord was ...
It’s the way Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 26 September 2022 Hesychasm isn’t only for monastics and those who have renounced the world, it’s for every real Christian. Hesychasm is an internal state, it’s  both ‘dwelling continuously in God and clarity of th...
Not beyond cure Saint Cyril of Jerusalem 25 September 2022 Sin’s a terrible thing, but can still be cured. It’s healed easily by repentance. The longer you keep your hand in a flame, the more it gets burned. But if you pull it out, it stops being burned. ...
Then it’s cleansed Saint Joseph the Hesychast 24 September 2022 If you say the prayer continuously, the mind settles it in the heart. By your own will-power, keep your mind purely on the words, without entertaining any imaginations, only the words of the praye...
The Conception of the Honorable, Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist, John Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis 23 September 2022 ‘The holy Evangelist Luke says in his Gospel that when the venerable and righteous Zachariah  entered the holy of holies in order to offer the sacrifice of incense, when he was on duty in the temple, ...
We regain our brightness with repentance Saint John the Karpathian 23 September 2022 The moon, which waxes and wanes, resembles people, in that we sometimes do good and then sin. We then repent and return to the life of virtue. So people who sin don’t lose their minds, as some say...
Living with cunning people Fr. Andreas Agathokleous 22 September 2022 We usually view other people on the basis of our own inner eyes and ‘what the heart is full of’ (Luke 6, 45). If we’re cunning, we think other people are cunning, as well; if we’re guileless, we think...
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