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Do not feed your passions by yielding to them
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
28 February 2018
Do not feed your passions by yielding to them, so that you do not suffer ...
Saint Nektarij invited her in her sleep
Stelios Koukos
12 October 2023
Nina D. had Starets Anatolij as her confessor. Quite some time after his de...
‘Keep saying in your heart’
Saint John of Kronstadt
24 July 2023
‘Keep saying in your heart, “Christ is love”. In this way, you’ll love all ...
Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women
Saint John Chrysostom
30 April 2023
One of the most striking features of Christianity is that it is not culture...
The Prodigal Son: Like a dead man even before he died in the body
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
12 February 2023
The Prodigal Son lived aimlessly and wasted all the wealth his father gave ...
The Three Hierarchs and Modern Atheism
Bishop Efthymios of Aheloos †
30 January 2023
‘The Impudence of the Heresies is Defeated’
The phenomenon of atheism aros...
The 15th Sunday of Luke (Zacchaeus)
Monk Agapios
22 January 2023
From the Kyriakodromion of Monk Agapios
All injustice, illegal seizure and...
The compassionate heart
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
1 December 2022
How greatly almsgiving contributes to prayer. If you want to pray you have ...
On the Birth of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God – 1
Saint Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople
7 September 2022
The Birth of the Mother of God, Russian Icon, 17th Century
Today, the Vir...
‘Keep saying in your heart’
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
27 July 2022
‘Keep saying in your heart “Christ is love”. In this way, you’ll love every...
The last time Saint Porfyrios entered the Holy Mountain
Fr. Evaggelos Papanikolaou, Doctor
20 May 2022
The story is told by Fr. Evangelos. As a young man, he often visited the Ho...
Return to Paradise (Cheese-Fare Sunday)
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †
6 March 2022
In the person of the old Adam, the human race fell, when it sinned against ...
Symeon, the Last of the Righteous. On the Reception of the Lord
Timotheos, a Priest of Jerusalem
3 February 2022
Since we shall not have enough time to mention the virtues of all the saint...
On Loneliness and Real Communication
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
13 September 2021
Don’t be afraid to be alone. People are alone if they don’t know God, even ...
Blessed Irene οf Chryssovalantou Monastery – 28 July
28 July 2021
Blessed Irene was born in Cappadocia, into the bosom of a rich and noble ...
Saint Paul describes and analyzes love
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
16 July 2021
(Ed. Stelios Koukos)
Love is the product of faith and of our submission to...
Recognizable features of a non-authentic Christian experience
Metropolitan Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou) of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki
15 July 2021
An experience which isn’t genuine produces Christians who, instead of being...
What delusion, what feebleness
Saint John of Kronstadt
1 February 2021
What darkness, what derangement, what weakness and what a terrible, dea...
‘Keep Thy Mind in Hell and in Me’
Archimandrite Peter, Abbot of Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex UK
30 November 2020
Saint Symeon the New Theologian says that we do not benefit from the ‘glamo...
Wage Increase
Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos
6 October 2020
It’s a common phenomenon all over the world that people try, by any means t...
They’re food
Saint John of Kronstadt
13 July 2020
When you pray, try very hard to feel the power and truth of the words of ...
Homily on St Jerome (15 June)
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios †
29 June 2020
On June 15th the Church remembers St. Jerome, a commemoration highlighting ...
While there’s yet time
Saint Gregory the Theologian
23 June 2020
While there’s time, let’s visit Christ, look after Him, feed Him, clothe ...
It rages inside us
Saint John of Kronstadt
19 June 2020
All the passions are fire in the soul, a huge fire that rages within us. ...
A Reflection of Joy-making Sorrow at the Repose of Elder Ephraim of Arizona
Stelios Koukos
5 May 2020
A Pious Reflection of Joy-making Sorrow at the Repose of Elder Ephraim of A...
Do your duty, help others and be useful
Saint John Chrysostom
28 March 2020
There’s nothing worse than Christians who don’t save other people. Don’t ...
Praiseworthy and blameworthy
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
21 November 2019
From holy Scripture we learn that there are two kinds of wealth: one is p...
The Responsibility of Love – 11th Sunday of Matthew
Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos
1 September 2019
One of the features of our society is a sense of lawlessness. It’s a belief...
On Egotism
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
2 July 2018
Today we shall speak about the great spiritual sickness known as egotism.
...
The baker’s son: Saint Tychon of Cyprus
Eva Topping
16 June 2018
Long ago, in the days when Arcadius and Honorius ruled the Roman Empire, a ...
For our good
Saint Amfilokhios Makris
27 March 2018
The saints were always thinking about the next life. Remembrance of death...
We could meet the needs
Saint Sophrony of Essex
5 March 2018
God came and showed us that He doesn’t want to abandon us but rather that...
Fasting and its benefits (2)
26 February 2018
Who is as strong as a lion, but, for the sake of his stomach falls into a t...
They get through easily
Saint John Chrysostom
10 January 2018
People who exercise restraint spend the whole of their lives at ease and ...
Saint Filaretos the Charitable (1 December)
1 December 2017
Saint Filaretos was a fine example of virtue, especially that of performing...
Greek Monasticism in the 19th Century [3]
Protopresbyter George Metallinos
9 November 2017
The Spiritual Continuation
However, the most substantive problem that alwa...
The God Who Is No God – 2
11 October 2017
Early Christianity was surely marked by practices: without them, there woul...
Saint Euphrosynus the Cook and the apples from heaven
Eva Topping
11 September 2017
Obscurity surrounds the birth of St. Euphrosynos the Cook. No one knows whe...
The Prophet Elijah
Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes
20 July 2017
One of God's greatest Prophet in the Old Testament is the Prophet Elijah. ...
The Creation of the World: The Crossroads between Theology and Science
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
19 May 2017
The matter of the beginning of the world is one which traditionally has bel...
Lest We Forget: Keeping Traditions
Virginia Nieuwsma
9 May 2017
To hear Mother Victoria of the St. Barbara’s Monastery tell it, growing u...
The Greek and Latin Sermon Tradition and the Preaching of Luther
Professor Dimitra Koukoura, School of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
8 May 2017
A. The Greek Sermon Tradition
1. The Preaching of Christ and the Apostles
...
The anthropological-ontological basis of the condemnation of wealth in the Gospel
Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia
8 February 2017
Inevitably, human weakness sometimes led to irregularities, such as an ac...
Sweeter than honey
28 January 2017
Why is it that when it comes to drinking nectar, bees make it sweeter than ...
The mystery of man’s heart
Very Rev. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)
25 December 2016
Archim. Zacharias Zacharou
All the ordinances of the undefiled Church are...
Should we hate religion?
Bev Cooke
22 December 2016
There was a lot of talk in January about Jefferson Bethke’s “Why I hate rel...
The myth of unconditional love
Michael Bressem, Ph.D.
16 December 2016
Many believe that “love conquers all” and they erroneously attribute the ...
The Problem with Abundance
Michael Bressem, Ph.D.
15 December 2016
People are rarely satisfied with having enough. Many say to themselves,“If ...
Who has a need for Christmas?
Fr. John Parker
6 December 2016
He had been extremely wealthy, but something went terribly wrong. After the...
Locusts and wild honey
James W. Lillie
23 October 2016
In the synaxarion for Saint James (October 23), we’re told that, like Saint...
While we have time
Saint Gregory the Theologian
1 October 2016
While there’s time, let’s visit Christ. Let’s look after Him, feed Him, clo...
Raging within us
Saint John of Kronstadt
27 September 2016
All the passions are fires of the soul, conflagrations raging within us. We...
I want to feel God. Genuine and Invalid Experiences
Archimandrite Varnavas Lambropoulos
16 September 2016
An unhealthy desire for experiences.
The Pharisees and Sadducees sought a ...
God Is Always With You
9 September 2016
Ms. Jessica Precop traveled to the Dormition of the Mother of God Monaste...
St. John Chrysostom and Family Life, the Contemporary Crisis of Marriage
29 August 2016
The institution of the family is in a state of crisis throughout the world ...
Elder Ambrosios of Dadiou Monastery advises and cautions
28 August 2016
1) Towards the end of August 2001, someone asked him to pray to Saint Nekta...
Byzantine Philanthropy – Part II
Demetrios J. Constantelos
28 August 2016
Ptocheia (Houses for the Poor)
The Byzantines maintained a special institu...
Byzantine Philanthropy – Part I
Demetrios J. Constantelos
25 August 2016
Philantropia in Byzantium was not what we understand today as philanthropy ...
The Vital Contribution of Monasticism Today
Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios, Ierotheos
11 April 2016
Monks and nuns aren’t weird people who, out of some sort of personal whim, ...
Papa-Stratis from Lesvos: the Priest of the Refugees
21 November 2015
by Penelope Sarrou and Iraklis Filios
‘And I want to tell you that we came...
Christ also stopped at Eidomeni
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
20 November 2015
‘Christ stopped at Empoli’ was the name of a classic work of literature. To...
Blessed Martyr Romanos, the athonite monk from Kavsokalyvia
5 January 2015
The Saint was from Karpenesi. He was totally illiterate, the only thing h...
Becoming Orthodox – Enter the Search: New Teachings
Joel Kalvesmaki
5 December 2014
Joel Kalvesmaki is Editor in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, overseein...
The Human Sensitiveness about Life and Death
Paul, Metropolitan of Aleppo
16 November 2014
“There was a certain rich man …
and a beggar named Lazarus”
5th Sunday of...
Spiritual hunger, the material needs and the miracle of sharing love
Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes
3 August 2014
One of the most impressive evangelical readings is that which refers to the...
Sin Is a Form of Love (Part 2)
Ilias Voulgarakis
16 December 2013
Everything starts with the meaning that each person gives to sin. If it is ...
The Great Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi and Thrace* Chapter 16- Part 3
Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi Monastery
5 January 2012
* A speech at Komotini on the 21st January 1994.
source: Translated by O...
Repentance, economic and institutional crisis
5 November 2011
According to Abba Cassian the monk seeks to obtain the kingdom of heaven an...
Archimandrite Ephraim: The spiritual legacy of Elder Iosif of Vatopaidi
4 November 2011
Conference on Monasticism
Coenobium of St Nikodemos, Pentalofos, Goumenits...