Elder Efraim of Arizona. Repentance
Repentance is endless. All the virtues, by the grace of God, may be perfected by man, but no one can perfect repentance, since we need repentance until our last […]
Author: Helen Kotsaridou
Posts by Helen Kotsaridou
Do not waste your time
How many times a day, and every day, whether we are at home or somewhere else, we need to leave what we are doing and do what the Lord […]
How to read the Psalms and the Prayers
When you read the verses of the psalms and the prayers, do not think that they are someone else's words, which you repeat, and thus, you think that the psalms […]
Earthly Sorrows
When we are surrounded by sorrows, we must intensify our prayers, to attract more strongly the grace of God… Earthly pleasures lead to the great eternal sorrow. Saint […]
I trust in God, that He will have mercy on my lowliness
The older I grow, the more I perceive the instability, the vanity of earthly things. Oh, why do we trouble ourselves in vain? Our life is short—dust, ashes, a […]
How to pray
Prayer is a conversation with God. The soul of the true Christian wants to pray constantly. It begins with doxology and praise, moves on to supplication and petition. […]
Miracle of St. Vlasios
On 9 December 1943, the Nazis burned Kalavryta and killed 667 male inhabitants. They then headed east, conducting operations against the Greek guerrillas in the northern Peloponnese. Around […]
Friendship
He who, because of some temptation and trial, cannot overlook the defect of his friend, does not yet have holy apathy. There are many friends in the time […]
How a passion fades
Just as wood is the cause of the flame of the fire and if you don’t feed it enough, the fire goes out, so are some of […]
Let us say it to our Lord
A woman cries out for her husband that she does not go to church, one cries out, the other. Slow down my brother. Don’t make the other […]