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Something’s missing Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol 22 September 2022 Very often, although there’s no external threat to us, our soul’s overcome with anxieties, fears, reservations, doubts and worries. Something’s missing from the soul then; it’s lacking something. ...
Distress and Delight Fr. Andreas Agathokleous 21 September 2022 How is it that you want to be friends with someone, but yet you don’t make any effort to get in touch with them, particularly when there’s no reluctance on their part? How is it that you want to feel...
Where would they fall from? 21 September 2022 We must till the acreage of our heart, but we also need the rain of grace. Humble people never fall. Where would they fall from, since they’re already beneath all others? Saint Makarios the Egy...
The Participation of Christians in the Cross of Christ Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou † 20 September 2022 After his rebuke to Peter, the Lord asked of his disciples that they, too, should lead their lives bearing a cross. He says that those who wish to follow him must deny themselves, take up their cross ...
As never before Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 20 September 2022 People today, who  are slaves to the passions and are disorientated as regards the meaning of life, have more need than ever before of liberation from their unnatural, abnormal, malevolent state. ...
Presence and Absence Elder Teofil Paraian 19 September 2022 One of the great Elders of recent years was the Romanian hieromonk Fr. Teofil Paraian (†2009). Blind from birth, he nevertheless completed his studies at the Theological School of Sibiu and then enter...
Sunday after the Elevation of the Precious Cross Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian 19 September 2022 The great feast of the Elevation of the Precious Cross, the most holy symbol of our faith, continues to illumine the spiritual atmosphere of the Church. This is why the Gospel reading for today is con...
How to cure the tendency to judge others Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos 19 September 2022 Every human character can be considered weak if it lacks the grace of God which perfects and maintains everything, since ‘it cures that which is sick and supplies that which is missing’. This is what ...
They’re weak Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff 19 September 2022 If you have a little free time in the course of the day, use it to read carefully a few well-chosen prayers or extracts from Scripture. In this way you’ll strengthen your spiritual forces, which w...
Sunday after the Exaltation: Being and Having Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th. 18 September 2022 The real scourge of humankind, particularly nowadays, is the feeling of insecurity and uncertainty which is the concomitant of sin, of our effort to revolt, that is, our desire to become ‘the masters ...
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