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You don’t lose anything
Elder Aimilianos Simonopetritis †
8 August 2022
God waits for the right moment to come and illumine your intellect, to grant you the whole of paradise. What you’ve been craving for one, two, three, five, twenty or fifty years, you’ll be given i... 
First Discourse on the Beatitudes
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
8 August 2022
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is th...
Everybody wants it
Saint Makarios the Egyptian
7 August 2022
Most people want to gain the kingdom without sweat and effort. They admire the saints and want their honor and gifts, but they don’t want to share in the pains and torments they undergo. Everybody...
It’s a prefiguration
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
6 August 2022
When you get up after sleep, it’s a foretaste of the resurrection of the dead, which awaits all of us, and you should direct your thoughts to God. You should offer the first fruits of the function...
That’s when it shows
Elder Efsevios Yannakakis
6 August 2022
So, at difficult moments, let’s not just shout ‘Where are you, Lord?’, but let’s show patience hope and fortitude. The Lord promised, ‘Behold, I am with you all the days of your life’ (Matth. 28, ...
You can’t do anything
5 August 2022
Humility flows from love. If you love somebody, you don’t disparage them, you don’t look down on them and you don’t distress them, because they’ll be hurt. If you distress somebody by your behavio...
In our interest
Saint Anthony the Great
4 August 2022
Truly rational people have only one keen interest: to trust in the God of all and to please him. This alone is what they should train their soul to do, to please God, thanking him for his great pr...
A miraculous appearance by Saint Iakovos during the divine liturgy
3 August 2022
(edited by Stelios Koukos)
I’d also like to mention a miraculous appearance of the Elder, after his demise, during the divine liturgy.
We’d removed the roof of one wing of the monastery and I had th...
The Kingdom of God
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous
3 August 2022
There are ecclesiastical terms which, I think, are difficult today for people to understand. One such is ‘The Kingdom of God’. It seems to refer to dominion, authority, and dominance. This is why, whe...
Directly and indirectly
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
3 August 2022
Within the Orthodox Church, a secret, noble mission is enacted, from the inside and through the sanctification of its members. Directly or indirectly, sanctification transmits holiness and spiritu...
