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On Wealth and the Wealthy (Matthew 19, 16-26) [1]
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
5 September 2022
In today’s Gospel reading, we hear about a rich young man who was unwilling to share his wealth and thus become an heir to the kingdom of heaven. The Lord then told his disciples that it’s easier for ... 
We don’t forget
Saint John Chrysostom
5 September 2022
If you’ve sinned, don’t despair. I never stop repeating these words, all the time. Even if you sin every day, then repent every day. Let’s do what we do with old houses that are ready to collapse:...
‘Good Teacher what Good should I do to have Eternal Life?’
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
4 September 2022
The rich young man in today’s Gospel reading (Matthew 9, 16-26) begins with an important motive: he seeks an answer about eternal life from Him Who is Eternal, real Life. He seeks an answer to salvati...
From a little love
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
4 September 2022
We all know how we can love a little those whom we love naturally. And we wonder how we can cultivate the little love we have for the few so that it becomes greater, so that we move on from loving...
A bit like radiation
Saint John of the Ladder
3 September 2022
For those who want him to be, God is their life and salvation. Everybody: believers and unbelievers, righteous and unrighteous, devout and impious, the passionless and the impassioned, monastics a...
Studying the Gospel
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
2 September 2022
When you study the Gospel, don’t look for pleasure, don’t look for excitement, don’t look for brilliant thoughts. Seek to find the infallible holy truth. Don’t be satisfied with studying the Gospel to...
That’s the way they are
Elder Efsevios Yannakakis
2 September 2022
That’s spiritual people. Whatever they see, however people behave towards them, even if they dowse them with water, they don’t answer back, they don’t protest in the slightest. That’s them. And be...
Happy (Ecclesiastical) New Year!
Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Archon Ostiarios, political scientist, freelance columnist
1 September 2022
On September 1st, the Orthodox Church commemorates the Beginning of the Indiction, that is, the Ecclesiastical New Year.
Before the Greek (or Constantinopolitan) Indiction was introduced by St. Const...
Begin like this
Saint Antonios of the Monastery of Optina
1 September 2022
Start your day in prayer, like Saint Seraphim; be like the cherubim in your actions; and like the angels in your behavior.
Starets Antonij, Optina...
On not disdaining the Church of God and the Holy Sacraments
Saint John Chrysostom
31 August 2022
On 8 August 2022, we published an article entitled ‘Let us go up to the mountain of the Lord’. In it, the author says: ‘We might wonder whether we’re worthy to ascend Mount Tabor at all’. This is a fe...
