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Elder Averkios. A Young Boy Solved his Problem and Vanished Immediately
31 August 2022
For a short time the Holy Mountain was calm . Then World War I began.
The Central Powers had blockaded Greece and hunger was making itself felt on the Holy Mountain, particularly among those living i... 
It has this method
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
31 August 2022
The Fathers say give your mind the task of praying unceasingly and it’ll never be deprived of divine light. Our Orthodox Church has this method of prayer. The single-line prayer of the heart, ‘Lor...
The Responsibility of Love
Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos
30 August 2022
One of the features of our society is the sense of injustice. It’s widely felt that some people are treated better than others, that, although laws exist, they aren’t applied, or, at least, aren’t in ...
Encomium on the Beheading of the Great Forerunner – 3
Saint Theodore the Studite
30 August 2022
According to the Gospel, his disciples then came, took away his body and buried it (Matth. 14, 13). Those of you who love history, look at how the burial of this righteous man is depicted and gives th...
It’s needed so much
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
30 August 2022
Our being expands through prayer until it gradually embraces the whole world. It acquires communality and universality in Christ. Prayer’s missing from the world, which is why the world is so mise...
Interceding for Us (Miracles of Saint Joseph the Hesychast)
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
29 August 2022
When I was abroad in 1987 I saw Geronda again in my sleep after finishing my vigil. He looked very happy and much younger than he was when he passed away. He said to me: “My child, know that when you ...
Those who love him
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
29 August 2022
In accordance with his plan, God allows us to be tested by various sorrows so that those who love him will be revealed.
Saint Efraim the Syrian...
Haphazard
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
28 August 2022
Repentance doesn’t mean painting over the cracks, an erratic, desultory effort. People who’ve repented rise anew, are revived, transformed and rectified in an astonishing way.
Father Moïsis the...
At an inappropriate time
Saint John Chrysostom
27 August 2022
Sorrow was given to us by God. Not so that we could use it aimlessly and to our detriment, at the wrong time and in conditions contrary to our nature, with a negative effect on the health of our s...
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. A personal note
James W. Lillie
27 August 2022
I first met Father Kallistos, as he then was, in Oxford. That he was a priest at all was something of an achievement, since he’d been told on his reception into the Orthodox Church that there was no p...
