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Run to her arms
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
2 August 2022
As soon as grace withdraws, as a trial, the passions and the aggravations begin. Violence again, from the beginning again, again shouting ‘Save me, Lord’, again our sweet little Mother. Run to her... 
‘Good morning’, ‘Christ has risen’ and a glass of water
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos
1 August 2022
One of the most common charges leveled against the faith is that it isn’t interested in people’s material needs. This is why those who speak publicly about the Church urge it to give to the poor, to p...
Depending on your heart
Saint John of Kronstadt
1 August 2022
The gift will depend on the state of your heart. If you pray with faith, directness, with all your heart, with sincerity and without hypocrisy, then the gift you’ll receive from the Lord will be c...
Miracles, the ‘Signs’ of the New Life (7th Sunday of Matthew)
Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian
31 July 2022
And the crowds marveled, saying, ‘Never was anything like this seen in Israel’ (Matth.. 9, 33).
In today’s Gospel reading, mention is made of two miracles performed by Our Lord Jesus Christ. One is t...
Then they overcome everything
Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of Our Lady the Guide, Portaria
31 July 2022
If people pursue the Jesus Prayer as if it were gold and make good use of every minute, then they overcome everything, they accept it and endure it. Then God and Our Lady protect them.
Abbess M...
We don’t know when
Saint Isaac the Syrian
30 July 2022
Brethren, let us hate this hollow life and let us desire only Christ, who is holy. We don’t know the time when our death will occur. None of us knows the time and day of our departure. Indeed, as ...
The bodiless presence of the Divine Word and the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. A response to anti-Trinitarian claims
Protopresbyter Vasileios Georgopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
29 July 2022
From the time of the Renaissance until today, a common effort has repeatedly been made on the part of all the anti-Trinitarian heresies which have made their appearance since then to declare that the ...
Have at them
Saint Barsanuphius
29 July 2022
When wicked thoughts come to you, don’t try to get rid of them by opening a rational dialogue with them. Smash them on the Rock. The Rock is Christ. His name. The Jesus Prayer. It’s not up to us w...
That’s when they thrive
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
28 July 2022
Believers strive not to nourish the passions either by active sin or by giving in to wicked thoughts, because passions are unnatural movements of the soul. When the powers of the soul, that is the...
Saint Panteleimon, healer of the soul
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
27 July 2022
In the dismissal hymn for the great martyr Saint Panteleimon, whose memory we keep today, we ask the saint to pray to the Lord for the remission of our sins. You’d expect that, from such a great physi...
