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Complete waste of time
Saint John of Kronstadt
24 July 2022
Those who pray must ardently desire spiritual blessings, such as the remission of sins, purity of heart, sanctification, and progress in the virtue for which they’re praying. Otherwise, their pray... 
Sermon on the Apostolic Reading for the 6th Sunday of Matthew (Romans 12: 6-14)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
24 July 2022
The words that come to us from St. Paul, in today’s reading from the Letter to the Romans, serve as a guide for our daily lives. He encourages us to make good use of the gifts that God has given us, a...
Saint Mary Magdalene: Minimizing an Apostle’s Role – 2
23 July 2022
The second mistaken identification of Mary Magdalene is with the anonymous adulteress (Jn. 7, 53-8, 11), whom Jesus saves from stoning with the famous words: “Let him who is sinless among you cast the...
A host of ways
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
23 July 2022
We always place the guilt on God, we always blame him, either directly or in front of others, for being absent, for not being there when we need him, for never responding whenever to turn to him. ...
Saint Mary Magdalene (+ July 22): Minimizing an Apostle’s Role
22 July 2022
The years 1976-1985 were named the “Decade for Women” by the UN. Within the context of the activities which were held then, the view was expressed, among other things, that religions bore the responsi...
We think we’ve achieved something
22 July 2022
When our soul burns with the desire for God and our heart pours out fervent prayer, we’ve simply been granted a measure of benevolence through a visit of grace. But if this blessed condition is pr...
As a separate personality
Abbess Gavriïlia
21 July 2022
Jesus Christ never told the twelve disciple all together what he said to the two he spoke to on their own as they were walking. He set out his teaching to the whole group. But he revealed the grea...
The glorious prophet Elijah
Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †
20 July 2022
The prophet Elijah is a model and example for all Christians, no matter what the conditions they’re living in. His faith and devotion to God, his resolute observance of God’s holy commandments and his...
The everyday miracles we don’t notice
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
20 July 2022
Saint Sophrony in Essex said that we still have not a few ascetics (whom the Lord has hidden) who don’t perform obvious miracles, though great miracles occur every day in their souls, unobserved by mo...
Principally through ascetic effort
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
20 July 2022
The only way that leads to the glorification of human nature is repentance, the return to God. And repentance is experienced mainly through the exercise of asceticism. Those who are enslaved to si...
