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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...
You’ll feel bad Saint Ephraim Katounakiotis 26 August 2022 Say the prayer ‘Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me’ all the time, day and night. The prayer will bring you everything. It contains everything: request, intercession, faith, confession, theology an...
Nobody can do that Saint Justin Popovich 25 August 2022 Any god who’s unable to give and guarantee eternal life for people is false. And nobody can do that, unless they’re in a position to defeat death. Saint Justin Popović...
Doubting the Power of God Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos 24 August 2022 Last Sunday, on the occasion of the Gospel reading, we saw external factors as the cause of the secularization of the body of the Church. Chief among these were authoritarianism, worldliness and disto...
They don’t know Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos 24 August 2022 The disappointment, the existential void, the isolation that people feel today is due mainly to the fact that they don’t know how to pray. They don’t devote an amount of time to prayer in the spac...
It makes us strong and victorious Saint John of Kronstadt 23 August 2022 Are you suddenly afflicted with sorrows? You’ll get over them. Are you overcome with despair? You’ll find courage and hope. You can acquire anything with faith; even the kingdom of heaven will bec...
The heart’s aflame Saint Joseph the Hesychast 22 August 2022 When you say the Jesus prayer continually, and the grace of God overshadows you, then your soul’s warmed by divine love and your heart’s aflame. Then you want to concentrate only on the name of Ch...
‘All generations call you blessed, only Mother of God’ Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th. 21 August 2022 When, after the Annunciation, the Virgin Mary visited her kinswoman Elizabeth, who was pregnant with Saint John the Baptist, ‘the babe leapt in her womb’ at their embrace. ‘Elizabeth was filled with t...
”He was nourished by prayer and did not feel the pangs of hunger”: New Martyr Theocharis from Neapolis, Asia Minor 21 August 2022 In 1740, the Ottoman Empire was at war and Sultan Ahmet ordered that all the male children of Christians be taken off to army camps. Theocharis, who was an orphan, was picked up with other children an...
Force yourself to improve Saint Basil the Great 21 August 2022 Look at the work you do every day, compare it with the work you did the previous day and force yourself to improve. Make progress in the virtues, so that you approach the life of the angels. Sa...
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