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It doesn’t matter
Saint Makarios of Optina
24 August 2023
Is sorrow burdening you? It doesn’t matter. A heart full of gratitude, humility and wisdom- a heart which has been fille with gratitude, humility and wisdom through struggle- will be richly compe...
We don’t forget
Saint John Chrysostom
23 August 2023
If you’ve sinned, don’t despair. I never stop repeating these words, all the time. Even if you sin every day, then repent every day. Let’s do what we do with old houses that are ready to collapse:...
In the Land of the Living
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
22 August 2023
In the Synaxarion for the Feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, there is a particularly moving account written there. At the age of about 50, The Holy Virgin received a divine message th...
The Strange Features of the Dormition
Sophia Bekri, Theologian
22 August 2023
As every year, we celebrate the Dormition of the Mother of God with veneration and honor, though the festivities generate mixed feelings. On the one hand, there’s sorrow and pain because our Lady, who...
On sudden death
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery
22 August 2023
Nowadays when science and technology are flying, when cultures converge and there is a crisis in values, even the word ‘death’ is avoided and anything reminiscent of it is ignored and discarded. Moder...
They cleanse
Saint Dimitri of Rostov
22 August 2023
Repent and bring the Lord your tears as myrrh of repentance. Tears cleanse the soul and wash away every stain. They clear the conscience, illumine the mind, break the fetters of the passions and t...
Don’t be so sure
Saint Sophrony of Essex
21 August 2023
Given our fallen state, we’re in no position to judge other people. Don’t be so certain that they’ve erred. Don’t judge.
Saint Sophrony in Essex...
They’re hard to break
Saint Theodoros of Edessa
20 August 2023
Let’s gird ourselves tightly and labor to carry out the Lord’s commandments, lest we be bound tightly with the chains of wicked desires and soul-destroying pleasures, which are difficult to break....
Samuel the Judge and Prophet (+ Αugust 20)
Theodore Rokas
20 August 2023
The Prophet Samuel, the last Judge of Israel, appeared on the stage of Biblical history towards the end of the period of the Judges, which, because of the lack of a king (“there was no King in Israel”...
The way
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
19 August 2023
Breaking the commandment, which is considered to be repudiation, caused the fall, devastation and death. Now, the way back for us is practical confession.
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos...